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Cloud Forensic for GCP
In Google Cloud, the compromised system you need often disappears before you can touch it. This practitioner's guide shows you how to pursue attackers through Cloud Audit Logs, IAM, and ephemeral infrastructure instead, with runnable gcloud commands and BigQuery queries for every step.
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Cloud Forensics for GCP is a practitioner-focused guide to investigating security incidents in Google Cloud environments. It's written for incident responders, forensic examiners, and cloud security engineers who already understand core DFIR fundamentals but have never run a structured investigation across a multi-project Google Cloud estate.
Google Cloud gives investigators extraordinarily rich telemetry, but only if the right logs were enabled before the incident happened. This book bridges that gap. It covers the resource hierarchy, the Cloud Audit Logs pipeline, identity and access abuse patterns, Compute Engine and GKE acquisition techniques, container and serverless forensics, Cloud Storage exfiltration analysis, evidence handling at scale, and BigQuery-based timeline construction. Every chapter pairs conceptual explanation with runnable gcloud examples, BigQuery SQL queries, and reusable artifacts (acquisition checklists, log-source-to-question tables, isolation runbooks) that you can adapt directly into your team's playbook.
The book closes with three end-to-end walkthroughs, a leaked key leading to cryptomining, a metadata server SSRF, and cloud-native ransomware, each traced from first detection to final findings report, followed by a chapter on building a lasting GCP forensic readiness program.
Whether you're building a greenfield Google Cloud investigation capability or extending an existing DFIR program into the cloud, this book gives you the mental models and concrete techniques to pursue adversaries across projects, services, and ephemeral infrastructure.
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SouthStone Publications
The founder of SouthStone Publications draws on more than twenty years in IT and cybersecurity, bringing that depth of experience into everything he writes. At heart, he's a technologist through and through: part enthusiast, part researcher, part engineer, part technical leader, having grown up alongside the internet itself and evolved right along with it.
His career sits at the crossroads of system design and cybersecurity, approached from both the offensive and defensive sides of the discipline. Over the years, he has built a reputation for turning complex, often intangible technical knowledge into practical guidance that professionals can actually put to work.
He currently serves on the leaderships in engineering and cybersecurity team at a leading IT services company in its industry, where he relentless studies emerging AI technologies and also cyber threats while helping organizations navigate the risks already at their doorstep. His expertise spans an unusually wide range of disciplines, consists of security engineering and development, project management, application security, infrastructure security, vulnerability management, reverse engineering, penetration testing, security architecture, incident response, and threat hunting and intelligence. He is equally at home diagnosing a flawed system architecture from the ground up, dissecting a sophisticated piece of malware, or leading red team operations against live threats - moving fluidly between granular technical detail and big-picture strategy in a way that few in the field can match.
Besides his astounding professional career experiences, he has partners with subject matter experts with backgrounds in technical writing, focused on AI, IT and security education, producing technical books and training programs that have helped countless developers, analysts, and practitioners build more resilient systems. That same dedication to clarity, rigor, and real-world relevance defines his work with SouthStone Publications, where deep technical expertise meets a mission to make security knowledge accessible, actionable, and built to be sustainable, lasting and progressive. SouthStone Publications is the first publisher of Cybersecurity category books in LeanPub.
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