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Cloud Forensics Demystified

By : Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Mansoor Haqanee
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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
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

Index

As this ebook edition doesn't have fixed pagination, the page numbers below are hyperlinked for reference only, based on the printed edition of this book.

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365 audit logs

extracting and searching for 319-322

with PowerShell 323

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Access Control Lists (ACLs) 42, 65, 118

Active Directory (AD) 337

Active Memory Dump 205

advanced persistent threats (APTs) 259

Advanced Research Project Agency Network (ARPANET) 3

Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) 180

Alibaba Cloud 58

allow policy 145

Alternate Data Streams (ADS) 212

Amazon Detective 106

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) 40, 41

Amazon GuardDuty 100, 101

malware scan 102-105

permissions and trust 101

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) 40, 46, 47

Amazon Resource Name (ARN) 65

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) 40, 43

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 40-43

Amazon Web Services (AWS) 8, 39, 40

AmCache 248

analysis 252-254

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