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Incident Response in the Age of Cloud

You're reading from   Incident Response in the Age of Cloud Techniques and best practices to effectively respond to cybersecurity incidents

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800569218
Length 622 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dr. Erdal Ozkaya Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Incident Response 2. Incident Response – Evolution and Current Challenges FREE CHAPTER 3. How to Organize an Incident Response Team 4. Key Metrics for Incident Response 5. Methods and Tools of Incident Response Processes 6. Incident Handling 7. Incident Investigation 8. Incident Reporting 9. Incident Response on Multiple Platforms 10. Cyber Threat Intelligence Sharing 11. Incident Response in the Cloud 12. Building a Culture of Incident Readiness 13. Incident Response Best Practices 14. Incident Case Studies 15. Ask the Experts 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

IR in the cloud

As we've already learned, an incident is a service disruption that impacts your customers and end users, regardless of where this is—be it a mobile device or the cloud! We've also learned that incidents can come in many different forms, ranging from performance slowdowns to system crashes or difficulties reaching your server or service!

When we look at the top cloud threats, you will notice the list is similar to the non-cloud theaters, since the cloud is, in reality, a data center that is managed by the cloud provider and your organization, depending of the service you are getting.

  • Public Secrets: Leaving secrets in open repositories like GitHub.
  • Misconfiguration: Similar to on-premises, not using the right settings might get your data exposed.
  • Exposed End Points: Open to brute-force attacks.
  • Account Hijacking: Since identity is the new permitter, getting your account hijacked will give your access to the threat actors...
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