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FOR509: Enterprise Cloud Forensics and Incident Response
FOR509Digital Forensics and Incident Response
- 6 Days (Instructor-Led)
- 36 Hours (Self-Paced)
Course authored by:
David Cowen, Josh Lemon, Pierre Lidome & Megan Roddie-Fonseca
Course authored by:David Cowen, Josh Lemon, Pierre Lidome & Megan Roddie-Fonseca
- GIAC Cloud Forensics Responder (GCFR)
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- 20 Hands-On Lab(s)
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Learn how to uncover new evidence sources that only exist in the cloud. Expand your ability to perform enterprise cloud forensics and incident response.
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FOR509 was absolutely awesome! The depth of knowledge is unparalleled. I see this becoming a very popular class in the future.
Course Overview
The world is changing and so is the data we need to conduct our investigations. Cloud platforms change how data is stored and accessed. They remove the examiner's ability to directly access systems and use classical data extraction methods. Unfortunately, many examiners are still trying to force old methods for on-premises examination onto cloud-hosted platforms. Rather than resisting change, examiners must learn to embrace the new opportunities presented to them in the form of new evidence sources. FOR509: Enterprise Cloud Forensics and Incident Response addresses today's need to bring examiners up to speed with the rapidly changing world of enterprise cloud environments by uncovering the new evidence sources that only exist in the cloud.
What You’ll Learn
- Master the tools, techniques, and procedures necessary to effectively locate, identify, and collect data no matter where it is located
- Identify and utilize new data only available from cloud environments
- Utilize cloud-native tools to capture and extract traditional host evidence
- Quickly parse and filter large data sets using scalable technologies such as the Elastic Stack
- Understand what data is available in various cloud environments
Business Takeaways
- Understand digital forensics and incident response as it applies to the cloud
- Identify malicious activities within the cloud
- Cost-effectively use cloud-native tools and services for DFIR
- Ensure the business is adequately prepared to respond to cloud incidents
- Decrease adversary dwell time in compromised cloud deployments
Meet Your Authors
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David Cowen
Certified InstructorFrom tracking a data breach across five countries and 1,000 systems to pioneering file system journaling forensics, David has been relentlessly advancing DFIR through research, tools, public speaking, and frontline incident response since 1999.
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Josh Lemon
Principal InstructorJosh leads global MDR at Uptycs, defending major international brands, while also serving as an independent DFIR expert advising legal, government, and commercial clients in Australia.
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Pierre Lidome
Certified InstructorPierre Lidome is a cyber threat hunter with over 25 years of experience in network engineering, security services, and DFIR, including cases involving insider threats and nation-state actors.
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Megan Roddie-Fonseca
Certified Instructor CandidateMegan is a Senior Security Engineer at IBM and SANS course author, combining her expertise in digital forensics with a fierce competitive edge as a Muay Thai fighter with 7 sanctioned bouts.
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Course Syllabus
Explore the course syllabus below to view the full range of topics covered in FOR509: Enterprise Cloud Forensics and Incident Response.
Section 1Microsoft 365 and Graph API
Before you can begin exploring the universe of cloud data, you must learn where and how it exists. In this section, you will explore common cloud concepts such as snapshots and cloud flows. You will understand what kind of logging and data access is provided by each cloud architecture and how to extract and process this data.
Topics covered
- SOF-ELK
- Key Elements of Cloud for DFIR
- Microsoft 365 Unified Audit Log
- Microsoft Graph API
Labs
- Visualize Data in SOF-ELK
- Suspicious Email
- Extortion
- Privilege Escalation with Graph API
Section 2Microsoft Azure
One of the most popular cloud providers for large enterprises is Microsoft Azure. Azure offers an impressive array of services and with that comes numerous data sources for us to explore. In this section, we will learn about the various Azure activity and diagnostics logs. Finally, we will find out how to deploy our own analysis tools in the cloud.
Topics covered
- Understanding Azure
- VMs, Networking, and Storage
- Log Sources for IR
- Virtual Machine Logs
- In-cloud IR
Labs
- Using SOF-ELK with Azure Logs
- AAD Password Spray
- Tracking Resource Creations
- Detecting Data Exfiltration
Section 3Amazon (AWS)
Now it's time to turn to the market leader in cloud services. In this section we will explore how AWS can be used for the responder, how to deploy your own analysis system into your region, the new and relevant log sources for your investigation and how to bring it all together in lab scenarios designed to help you quickly solve the most common AWS cases.
Topics covered
- Understanding IR in AWS
- Networking, VMs, and Storage
- Log Sources for IR
- Event Drive Response
- In-cloud IR
Labs
- Reviewing CloudTrails Logs
- Finding Rogue VMs
- VPC Flow Logs and Route 53 Logs
- S3 Analysis
- Tracking Lateral Movement
Section 4Google Workspace
This section will start with a high-level overview of Kubernetes and the logs available in each of the cloud providers. As one of the first SaaS solutions for organizations dating back to 2006, Google Workspace has a wide array of evidence artifacts for investigators to use when conducting incident response or internal investigations.
Topics covered
- Kubernetes Forensics and IR
- Understanding Google Workspace
- Google Workspace Evidence
- ATT&CKing Workspace
Labs
- Kubernetes Log Analysis
- Google Workspace Admin BEC
- OAuth Abuse with Third-Party Apps
- Google Workspace Data Exposure
- Collecting Workspace Logs in GCP via CLI
Section 5Google Cloud
Google Cloud fundamentally changes how identity access management is treated compared to AWS and Azure. Using a combination of the GCP platform, its built-in auditing, agent-based logging, and external log analysis tools like ELK, this section will teach DFIR professionals with limited knowledge of GCP how to conduct investigations into common attacks.
Topics covered
- Understanding Google Cloud
- Log Sources, Collection, & Log Routing
- VM & Storage Investigations
- Google Cloud Network Forensics
Labs
- Google Cloud IAM and Access Tracking
- Collecting Logs in Google Cloud via CLI
- Google VM and Ops Agent Log Analysis
- Storage Abuse and Exfil
- Google Cloud: Network Forensics
Section 6Multi-Cloud Intrusion Challenge
In the final section, students will form teams to solve an intrusion that spans all three major cloud providers. Students will need to refer to all their new knowledge for the week and divide and conquer the evidence to find out how the intrusion occurred. Multiple interconnected cloud systems will be examined as students work to determine what happened.
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- Slide 1 of 3FOR509 is very much needed in the industry as there is very little training out there for Cloud DFIR. So the fact that this course exists and is huge.
- Slide 2 of 3Thanks a lot for FOR509 course. I believe this course provides a great way to get a really compressed introduction into the different cloud service providers and what is forensically possible there.
- Slide 3 of 3I love SANS - the training you all provide is world class! I hope that I am able to earn another certification and attend again next year!
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