Summary

This chapter delved into the crucial role of log analysis in incident response within the Azure environment. It emphasized the significance of understanding the available log sources in Azure, how to obtain them, and best practices for analyzing the data to effectively detect, contain, and resolve security incidents. By familiarizing incident response professionals with the tools and techniques specific to Azure, they can enhance their ability to safeguard and respond to security incidents in a cloud infrastructure context.

This chapter highlighted the importance of differentiating between default log availability and the need to enable certain logs, drawing parallels to AWS. Then, it outlined the diverse logs provided by essential Azure services and products, as previously discussed in Chapter 3, and examined their utilization for investigative purposes. In particular, this chapter explored Azure Log Analytics, Azure Virtual Network flow logs, Azure Storage, Azure Virtual...