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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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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

Packet Mirroring

GCP’s Packet Mirroring feature allows security teams to collect network packets from VMs and identify security threats or activities associated with the VMs. GCP’s Packet Mirroring only mirrors traffic between VMs and external interfaces and does not mirror traffic between cluster nodes such as GKE. We will learn more about containers, including Docker and Kubernetes, in Chapter 11.

To mirror packets, ensure the principals are attached with the compute.packetMirrorUser and compute.packetMirroringAdmin roles.

An internal load balancer must be deployed with network passthrough capabilities that pass the traffic to the collector instances to enable packet mirroring. The load balancer must be pointed to a managed instance group in the backend with pre-configured instance templates, allowing GCP to create collector instances automatically. The collector instance can be a VM with tools for capturing and receiving network packets via the internal load...

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