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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
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

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and service offered by Microsoft that provides a range of cloud services, including compute, storage, networking, and analytics. It allows organizations to build, deploy, and manage applications and services through a global network of data centers, providing the ability to scale up or down as needed without the need for on-premises infrastructure. Azure offers a variety of services, including virtual machines, databases, app services, IoT, and machine learning, and can integrate with other Microsoft productivity suites, such as Microsoft 365 (we will discuss productivity suites in Chapter 7 of this book). Azure also provides a range of security features, including IAM, network security, and threat protection, to help keep data and applications secure.

We will explore the key Azure services that incident responders should be familiar with, and explain why knowing about Azure is important for effective incident response...