Incident Response in the Cloud

Summary

A structured process for detecting, containing, and recovering from a security incident in cloud infrastructure — including the added step of preserving evidence (logs, snapshots) for investigation.

• 1Learn the standard incident response phases: identify, contain, eradicate, recover, review.
• 2Understand why isolating a compromised resource (e.g. removing it from a security group) often comes before full investigation.
• 3Read a public post-mortem of a real cloud security incident to see this process applied.