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Cloud Forensics Demystified

You're reading from   Cloud Forensics Demystified Decoding cloud investigation complexities for digital forensic professionals

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800564411
Length 384 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mansoor Haqanee Mansoor Haqanee
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Ganesh Ramakrishnan Ganesh Ramakrishnan
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Ganesh Ramakrishnan
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Preface 1. Part 1: Cloud Fundamentals
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to the Cloud FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Trends in Cyber and Privacy Laws and Their Impact on DFIR 4. Chapter 3: Exploring the Major Cloud Providers 5. Chapter 4: DFIR Investigations – Logs in AWS 6. Part 2: Forensic Readiness: Tools, Techniques, and Preparation for Cloud Forensics
7. Chapter 5: DFIR Investigations – Logs in Azure 8. Chapter 6: DFIR Investigations – Logs in GCP 9. Chapter 7: Cloud Productivity Suites 10. Part 3: Cloud Forensic Analysis – Responding to an Incident in the Cloud
11. Chapter 8: The Digital Forensics and Incident Response Process 12. Chapter 9: Common Attack Vectors and TTPs 13. Chapter 10: Cloud Evidence Acquisition 14. Chapter 11: Analyzing Compromised Containers 15. Chapter 12: Analyzing Compromised Cloud Productivity Suites 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Forensic triage collections

One of the biggest pain points incident responders will face is data acquisition at the individual host level, especially when it pertains to operating system artifacts. CSPs such as Azure, AWS, and GCP offer various logging mechanisms to aid in monitoring and auditing actions on their resources. However, these logs often capture activities related to the infrastructure or services utilized. By default, they do not capture the granular details of user activities or system operations at the operating system level (except for cloud ecosystem-connected EDR agents such as Microsoft Defender for Endpoint). Even in a cyber incident that involves cloud resources, the reality is that most of an incident’s indicators of compromise (IoCs) will come from host-level artifacts.

As we have seen throughout this book, cloud log sources primarily focus on the cloud resources’ interactions. This means detailed host-level activities, such as specific Windows...

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