Design and Implementation of a Cloud Digital Forensic Laboratory

With the continuous increase of the network bandwidth and the quality improvement of the connection, cloud computing provides a stable network environment and an innovative thinking platform. Through the high-speed and stable network platform, applications can response dynamic demand and require the cloud resources quickly. Digital forensics including obtain, preserve, analyze, and document digital evidence in a court of law. Analyzing digital evidence needs a fundamental network infrastructure and large capacity computing power, so we design and implement a digital forensic laboratory (DFL) based on cloud computing platform. The proposed system generates forensic report automatically and it not only provides a centralize storage for digital evidence but also performs multiple forensic tools for analyzing evidence. We use the proposed DFL to support the compute and storage needs.