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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
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Part 3: Cloud Forensic Analysis – Responding to an Incident in the Cloud

Azure Virtual Networks

A virtual network is very similar to the traditional network that you would operate and stand up in your own organization’s data center. Similar to how networking allows your organization’s assets and resources to communicate with each other, Azure’s Virtual Network service allows you to build a network for your Azure resources and services to communicate with each other, the public internet, or any of an organization’s on-premise networks and resources.

Similar to AWS’s VPC, when you create a virtual machine resource in Azure, you can create an Azure Virtual Network or use an existing one (if it has been created already). Your virtual network is just like any other entity managed by Azure (known as an Azure Resource), such as a virtual machine, data store, database, or any other service we had previously discussed in Chapter 3.

For demonstration purposes and the purpose of this section, we have a created virtual network...