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A Meta-model for Assisting a Cloud Forensics Process

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Cloud forensics introduce processes for resolving incidents occurring in cloud computing environments. However, designing cloud services capable to assist a cloud investigation process is of vital importance and recent research efforts concentrate on these directions. In addition, digital forensics methods cannot support a cloud investigation since cloud environments introduce many differences compared to traditional IT environments. This paper moves current research one step further by identifying the major concepts, actors and their relationships that participating in a cloud forensics process through the introduction of a new meta-model. The paper presents a running example as well for better understanding the suggested concepts.

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  1. Cultural Informatics Laboratory, Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean, University Hill, 81100, Mytilene, Greece

    Stavros Simou & Christos Kalloniatis

  2. School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Brighton, Watts Building, Lewes Road, Brighton, BN2 4GJ, UK

    Haralambos Mouratidis

  3. Information and Communication Systems Security Laboratory, Department of Information and Communications Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, 83200, Samos, Greece

    Stefanos Gritzalis

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Simou, S., Kalloniatis, C., Mouratidis, H., Gritzalis, S. (2016). A Meta-model for Assisting a Cloud Forensics Process. In: Lambrinoudakis, C., Gabillon, A. (eds) Risks and Security of Internet and Systems. CRiSIS 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9572. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31811-0_11

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