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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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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

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

Detecting and analyzing compromised containers

Most organizations operate container architectures through Kubernetes since it offers many more scalable options and flexibility. Before we dive deeper into container analysis, it is essential to understand the components of Kubernetes, as they will play a pivotal role in your investigations.

About the Kubernetes orchestration platform

The following screenshot illustrates the basic architecture of a Kubernetes cluster; in summary, as we know, Kubernetes is an orchestration framework that manages one or more nodes that run one or more containers:

Figure 11.1 – Simple Kubernetes architecture

Figure 11.1 – Simple Kubernetes architecture

For the Kubernetes cluster, you need a master node that controls and orchestrates the cluster’s operations and worker nodes that run the pods and tasks assigned by the master node. Here are some critical components of a Kubernetes cluster:

  • API server: This is the frontend of the cluster; developers...
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