Conducting Cloud Incident Response

When to Use

• Cloud security posture management (CSPM) alerts on unauthorized resource changes
• CloudTrail, Azure Activity Logs, or GCP Audit Logs show suspicious API calls
• Cloud access keys or service principal credentials are suspected compromised
• Unauthorized compute instances, storage buckets, or IAM changes are detected
• A cloud-hosted application is breached and attacker activity spans cloud services

Do not use for on-premises-only incidents with no cloud component; use standard enterprise IR procedures.

Prerequisites