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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

Policy Analyzer

Given that IAM assignments occur over roles where principals are assigned access permissions to a resource using roles, GCP offers additional tools for troubleshooting and investigating IAM policy configurations. Policy Analyzer allows DFIR teams to analyze excess privileges assigned to users or roles that may have resulted in abuse. Policy Analyzer can also determine whether a user has the necessary permissions to perform specific actions, such as deleting a table, a GCE resource, and so on.

The following is an example of Policy Analyzer’s output. We can see in the query result what roles and permissions were configured for a user under a GCP resource. Note that resources are allocated toward a project, and GCP tags them as resources:

Figure 6.2 – Policy Analyzer query results and list of permissions per role

Figure 6.2 – Policy Analyzer query results and list of permissions per role

DFIR use cases for Policy Analyzer

Using a policy analyzer in the context of DFIR within GCP enables organizations...

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