Highly information-sensitive domains such as banking, healthcare andgovernment services have been reluctant to adopt cloud and distributedcomputing technologies since their wide-spread commercial inception overthe past 12 years. In contrast, many other sectors such astelecommunications and shops have embraced diverse cloud strategies andare able to benefit from their cost savings and their abilities toaccommodate surge requests. Secure cloud and edge computing strategiesare therefore key to broaden the applicability of modern beneficialtechnologies, such as resilient cloud-native applications with datapersistence guarantees, to the reluctant sectors. On the other hand,many important technologies in the security domain, in particular indigital forensics, are increasingly developed for cloud environments, ortheir vendors have announced at least plans to do so. The companyinvolved in this proposal from Dubai, Penta, is a pioneer in world-wideIT businesses specifically for the information-sensitive market,focusing on digital transformation and cyber-security. While Pentaoffers several cloud solutions, gaining capabilities in secure cloudcomputing and cloud-/edge-related cyber-security and autonomous(self-learning) forensics would significantly boost its market potentialto protect sensitive businesses and organisations in the cloud. Previousresearch results developed at the universities involved in thisproposal, ZHAW and University of Sharjah, contribute to the gaining ofknowledge and tooling experience for this purpose.