Towards building a forensics aware language for secure logging

Shams Zawoad (Author), Marjan Mernik (Author), Ragib Hasan (Author)

Abstract

Trustworthy system logs and application logs are crucial for digital forensics. Researchers have proposed different security mechanisms to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of logs. However, applying current secure logging schemes on heterogeneous formats of logs is tedious. Here, we propose Forensics Aware Language (FAL), a domain-specific language (DSL) through which we can apply a secure logging mechanism on any format of logs. Using FAL, we can define log structure, which represents the format of logs and ensures the security properties of a chosen secure logging scheme. This log structure can later be used by FAL to serve two purposes: it can be used to store system logs securely and it will help application developers for secure application logging by generating the required source code.

Keywords

DSL;secure logging;audit trail;digital forensics;

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Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2014
Typology:	1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:	UM FERI - Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
UDC:	004.434
COBISS:	17970966
ISSN:	1820-0214
Views:	878
Downloads:	319
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Secondary language:	Slovenian
Secondary keywords:	domensko-specifični jezik;DSL;varnostni dnevnik;revizijska sled;digitalna forenzika;
URN:	URN:SI:UM:
Type (COBISS):	Scientific work
Pages:	Str. 1291-1314
Volume:	ǂVol. ǂ11
Issue:	ǂno. ǂ4
Chronology:	2014
DOI:	10.2298/CSIS131201051Z
ID:	10847149