Cloud Forensics in AWS & Azure: Preserving Ephemeral Infrastructure Evidence
Automating EBS and OS disk snapshotting, preserving CloudTrail logs, and analyzing serverless and container attack footprints.
The Challenge of Ephemeral Cloud Assets
In auto-scaling cloud architectures, compromised EC2 instances or Kubernetes pods may be terminated automatically when health checks fail, destroying all volatile forensic evidence in seconds.
Automating Snapshot Isolation Workflows
Deploy automated Lambda or Azure Functions that trigger upon high-severity GuardDuty or Sentinel alerts: automatically taking raw disk snapshots of EBS volumes, removing network interfaces (ENIs), and tagging the volume for forensic custody.
Analyzing Immutable Cloud Audit Logs
Ingest AWS CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, and Azure Activity Logs into centralized, write-once S3/Blob storage accounts with independent root credentials to reconstruct the exact API calls executed by the adversary.
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