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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

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Introduced in 2006, AWS is a cloud computing platform that provides a wide range of services to help organizations build and deploy their applications and infrastructure. AWS offers infrastructure and computing resources at scale and allows organizations to virtualize their entire IT infrastructure in the cloud, making AWS a critical tool for many organizations. Incident responders, in particular, need to have a solid understanding of AWS as it has become one of the most popular platforms for hosting critical systems and services.

AWS offers a vast array of services, each designed to meet the specific needs of organizations and developers. With over 200 services available, it can be overwhelming to navigate the platform, especially for those new to AWS. In this section, we will focus on the core services that are commonly used by organizations of all sizes. These include compute services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), storage services such...