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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

The role of a breach counselor (breach coach)

A breach counselor (also known as a breach coach) is an attorney with expertise in cybersecurity and related legal frameworks. A breach counselor’s responsibility is to understand the data hosted by an affected organization and develop an understanding of the respective legal implications for the organization because of the cybersecurity incident or breach. Typically, breach coaches are retained when there is a risk of litigation due to the impact of the security incident or breach (for example, unauthorized disclosure of private and sensitive data leading to identity fraud against customers) and as a result, breach coaches provide recommendations and legal advice to the affected organization as they navigate and respond to the incident.

Breach coaches can also represent the organization in a court of law should the matter go to court, but in most cases, an organization retains breach coaches to identify the organization’...