An AI Model for Digital Forensic Readiness in the Cloud using Secure Access Service Edge

Computing infrastructure has evolved and has brought about changes to the ways that work and business are carried out. Cloud computing has redefined these workspaces by providing connectivity and tools to enable productivity, collaboration, and flexibility. As work moves outside the centralised office and goes remote, users are accessing the cloud directly, leaving the protection of the corporate network and leaving the users’ computing platforms open to threats. In the pre-cloud era, the data centre for organisations was the single location where digital assets would be housed and non-complicated security parameters implemented. The firewall would be the main security perimeter implemented to secure the network in this pre-cloud era. The advent of cloud computing has brought potential areas and gaps in securing the organisational data, information and communication connectivity to the cloud-based resources. As such, there is need to rethink and redesign the models which can be implemented to secure the cloud computing services. The cloud should be in a state of digital forensics readiness in order to facilitate digital forensics investigation. The study focuses on the development of an artificial intelligence model for digital forensic readiness for the cloud using secure access service edge. This integrated approach might assist in the provisioning of cloud security.