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A Forensic Enabled Data Provenance Model For Public Cloud, Shariful Haque, Travis Atkison

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

Cloud computing is a newly emerging technology where storage, computation and services are extensively shared among a large number of users through virtualization and distributed computing. This technology makes the process of detecting the physical location or ownership of a particular piece of data even more complicated. As a result, improvements in data provenance techniques became necessary. Provenance refers to the record describing the origin and other historical information about a piece of data. An advanced data provenance system will give forensic investigators a transparent idea about the data's lineage, and help to resolve disputes over controversial pieces of data …