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Cloud Incident Response

Hunt attackers across AWS and Azure.

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Starting at $250 · Taught by industry-certified ThreatBlock instructors.

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Highlights: 18h
Highlights: Hard
Batch: Max 18 Learners
Mode: Online Live

What You'll Learn

Cloud IR Foundations & Telemetry
The cloud shared responsibility model and how it reshapes incident response. Mapping the primary evidence sources: AWS CloudTrail, Azure Activity Logs, and Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) sign-in and audit logs. Understanding log latency, retention gaps, and the difference between management-plane and data-plane events. Setting up a dedicated investigation account and read-only forensic access.
Identity Abuse & Credential Attacks
Investigating compromised IAM users, leaked long-lived access keys, and abused temporary STS credentials in AWS. Detecting token theft, illicit OAuth app consent, and MFA fatigue attacks against Entra ID. Reading CloudTrail for AssumeRole chains and sts:GetFederationToken abuse. Spotting persistence via new IAM users, access keys, and service principal credentials.
Misconfiguration & Privilege Escalation
Enumerating over-permissive IAM policies and identifying privilege escalation paths with tools like Prowler and ScoutSuite. Investigating public S3 buckets, exposed Azure Storage accounts, and metadata service (IMDS) SSRF abuse. Tracing how an attacker moved from a low-privilege foothold to administrative control. Hardening findings and least-privilege remediation guidance.
Lateral Movement & Persistence
Following lateral movement across AWS accounts via role assumption and cross-account trust relationships. Tracking movement across Azure subscriptions and management groups through RBAC assignments. Detecting backdoors in Lambda functions, EC2 user-data, and Azure Automation runbooks. Identifying persistence in resource policies, federation configs, and hidden service principals.
Detection Engineering & Threat Hunting
Building detections with Amazon GuardDuty, Azure Defender for Cloud, and Microsoft Sentinel. Writing KQL and CloudWatch Logs Insights queries to hunt anomalous API activity. Correlating signals across identity, network (VPC Flow Logs), and resource events. Tuning alerts to reduce noise and mapping detections to MITRE ATT&CK for Cloud.
Containment, Eradication & Live Case
Containment actions: revoking sessions, rotating keys, quarantining compromised resources, and isolating networks without destroying evidence. Preserving snapshots and memory for forensic analysis. Writing the incident timeline and executive report. A full capstone investigation of a simulated multi-cloud breach from initial access to eviction.
Course Curriculum

What you'll master.

6 modules — tap any topic to expand the details.

The cloud shared responsibility model and how it reshapes incident response. Mapping the primary evidence sources: AWS CloudTrail, Azure Activity Logs, and Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) sign-in and audit logs. Understanding log latency, retention gaps, and the difference between management-plane and data-plane events. Setting up a dedicated investigation account and read-only forensic access.
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Reviews & Testimonial

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Arjun Nair
Incident Responder
★★★★★

The multi-cloud capstone felt exactly like a real breach call. I now trace CloudTrail AssumeRole chains without hesitation.

Sneha Iyer
Cloud Security Engineer
★★★★★

The Entra ID identity-abuse module was gold. Detecting illicit OAuth consent grants has already helped me catch a real incident at work.

Rohit Deshmukh
SOC Lead
★★★★★

Finally a course that teaches containment without destroying evidence. The snapshot and session-revocation playbooks are now part of our runbook.

Kavya Menon
DFIR Analyst
★★★★★

The KQL and CloudWatch Insights hunting labs sharpened my threat-hunting skills across both AWS and Azure in a single course.

Vikram Shetty
Security Architect
★★★★★

Prowler and ScoutSuite finally clicked for me here. The privilege-escalation path analysis changed how I review IAM policies.

Arjun Nair
Incident Responder
★★★★★

The multi-cloud capstone felt exactly like a real breach call. I now trace CloudTrail AssumeRole chains without hesitation.

Sneha Iyer
Cloud Security Engineer
★★★★★

The Entra ID identity-abuse module was gold. Detecting illicit OAuth consent grants has already helped me catch a real incident at work.

Rohit Deshmukh
SOC Lead
★★★★★

Finally a course that teaches containment without destroying evidence. The snapshot and session-revocation playbooks are now part of our runbook.

Kavya Menon
DFIR Analyst
★★★★★

The KQL and CloudWatch Insights hunting labs sharpened my threat-hunting skills across both AWS and Azure in a single course.

Vikram Shetty
Security Architect
★★★★★

Prowler and ScoutSuite finally clicked for me here. The privilege-escalation path analysis changed how I review IAM policies.

Vikram Shetty
Security Architect
★★★★★

Prowler and ScoutSuite finally clicked for me here. The privilege-escalation path analysis changed how I review IAM policies.

Kavya Menon
DFIR Analyst
★★★★★

The KQL and CloudWatch Insights hunting labs sharpened my threat-hunting skills across both AWS and Azure in a single course.

Rohit Deshmukh
SOC Lead
★★★★★

Finally a course that teaches containment without destroying evidence. The snapshot and session-revocation playbooks are now part of our runbook.

Sneha Iyer
Cloud Security Engineer
★★★★★

The Entra ID identity-abuse module was gold. Detecting illicit OAuth consent grants has already helped me catch a real incident at work.

Arjun Nair
Incident Responder
★★★★★

The multi-cloud capstone felt exactly like a real breach call. I now trace CloudTrail AssumeRole chains without hesitation.

Vikram Shetty
Security Architect
★★★★★

Prowler and ScoutSuite finally clicked for me here. The privilege-escalation path analysis changed how I review IAM policies.

Kavya Menon
DFIR Analyst
★★★★★

The KQL and CloudWatch Insights hunting labs sharpened my threat-hunting skills across both AWS and Azure in a single course.

Rohit Deshmukh
SOC Lead
★★★★★

Finally a course that teaches containment without destroying evidence. The snapshot and session-revocation playbooks are now part of our runbook.

Sneha Iyer
Cloud Security Engineer
★★★★★

The Entra ID identity-abuse module was gold. Detecting illicit OAuth consent grants has already helped me catch a real incident at work.

Arjun Nair
Incident Responder
★★★★★

The multi-cloud capstone felt exactly like a real breach call. I now trace CloudTrail AssumeRole chains without hesitation.