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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

Compute Engine logs

GCE is a service offered by GCP that allows users to create VMs within GCP’s infrastructure. These VMs can be hosted across any part of the world where GCP operates. It provides flexibility and scalability options, making various preconfigured VM instances available. It can create on demand or resize a VM based on requirements. Users can create a VM instance or a group of VMs through GCE Instance Group Manager, which manages the deployment and configuration of VMs.

GCP’s logging platform

GCP’s Cloud Logging platform automatically collects and aggregates logs from various GCP resources via Logs Explorer. It offers a single-pane view of all the logs and filters, allowing investigators to hunt for specific alerts or threats and use them for monitoring. Some of the types of logs it collects are as follows:

  • Platform logs: Generated through GCP’s services, these logs are used for debugging and troubleshooting. Examples of platform...
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