CHAPTER 2

Cloud Security Event Investigation

In this chapter, you will learn about

•   Which AWS services are used in an incident response plan

•   Looking for indicators of a cloud security event

•   Determining the RCA (root cause analysis) of an event

A security event can be described as an abnormal operation of your environment or network indicating that a security policy might have been violated or a security safeguard might have failed. The difference between “might have been violated/might have failed” and “has been violated/has failed” is the difference between an event and an incident. In this chapter will be discussing events.

Determining if a cloud security event has occurred is similar to how you would determine if a security event ...

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