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Cloud Forensics Demystified

By : Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Mansoor Haqanee
Book Image

Cloud Forensics Demystified

By: Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Mansoor Haqanee

Overview of this book

As organizations embrace cloud-centric environments, it becomes imperative for security professionals to master the skills of effective cloud investigation. Cloud Forensics Demystified addresses this pressing need, explaining how to use cloud-native tools and logs together with traditional digital forensic techniques for a thorough cloud investigation. The book begins by giving you an overview of cloud services, followed by a detailed exploration of the tools and techniques used to investigate popular cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Progressing through the chapters, you’ll learn how to investigate Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and containerized environments such as Kubernetes. Throughout, the chapters emphasize the significance of the cloud, explaining which tools and logs need to be enabled for investigative purposes and demonstrating how to integrate them with traditional digital forensic tools and techniques to respond to cloud security incidents. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to handle security breaches in cloud-based environments and have a comprehensive understanding of the essential cloud-based logs vital to your investigations. This knowledge will enable you to swiftly acquire and scrutinize artifacts of interest in cloud security incidents.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Part 1: Cloud Fundamentals
6
Part 2: Forensic Readiness: Tools, Techniques, and Preparation for Cloud Forensics
10
Part 3: Cloud Forensic Analysis – Responding to an Incident in the Cloud

Part 3: Cloud Forensic Analysis – Responding to an Incident in the Cloud

In this part, we take one step forward in debunking the complexities of forensically acquiring cloud artifacts, including memory and disk artifacts, understanding network logs, and obtaining them for offline analysis and investigation. We will also look at fundamental forensic artifacts and their importance in investigations. This section will investigate containers hosted in the cloud, along with cloud productivity suites.

This part has the following chapters:

  • Chapter 8, The Digital Forensics and Incident Response Process
  • Chapter 9, Common Attack Vectors and TTPs
  • Chapter 10, Cloud Evidence Acquisition
  • Chapter 11, Analyzing Compromised Containers
  • Chapter 12, Analyzing Compromised Cloud Productivity Suites