Top 10 Ways to Evolve Cloud Native Incident Response Maturity
summary
Ten concrete changes to implement: enable CloudTrail, Route53 DNS logs and VPC flow logs v5 across all regions, deploy GuardDuty and a log lake (Security Lake) for cheaper retention, build forensics OUs and snapshot backups, create cloud-native playbooks and workshops for credential compromise, crypto‑mining, S3 ransomware and EC2 exploit scenarios, enforce Service Control Policies, use read‑only responder access plus break‑glass, and document source/destination/technique containment plus IAM rotation and automation via CloudFormation/Terraform.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:51Challenges of cloud incident response
- 2:54What is incident response?
- 3:42Incident Response Lifecycle
- 5:00What's different about incident response on AWS?
- 11:30AWS incident response principles and design goals
- 15:17Define roles and responsibilities in IR plan
- 17:20Train staff on AWS
- 19:53Develop cloud incident response playbooks
- 20:52Develop account structure and tagging strategy
- 23:15Run simulations
- 26:19Prepare access
- 27:23Select and set up logs
- 30:33Enable managed detection services in all available regions
- 31:25Determine containment strategy for resource types
- 33:50Develop cloud forensics capabilities
- 34:38Top 10 Summary
- 38:08Apply your learnings
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