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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
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Part 1: Cloud Fundamentals
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Part 2: Forensic Readiness: Tools, Techniques, and Preparation for Cloud Forensics
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Part 3: Cloud Forensic Analysis – Responding to an Incident in the Cloud

MITRE ATT&CK framework

The MITRE ATT&CK framework is a knowledge base of attacker tactics and techniques based on real-world observations from security researchers. It’s a tool that’s used by security teams to better understand attack behavior and to improve defense and response strategies. In the context of cloud environments, the MITRE ATT&CK framework outlines specific techniques that adversaries use against cloud service providers (CSPs) such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.

The MITRE ATT&CK framework is particularly useful for cloud forensics because it allows responders to anticipate attacker behavior and plan their forensic investigations accordingly. By aligning with this framework, organizations can identify gaps in their defensive posture and better understand how to detect, respond to, and mitigate cloud-specific threats.

Within the scope of cloud infrastructures, the MITRE ATT&CK framework provides a matrix of known attacker TTPs, which includes...