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Cloud forensics: Prepare for the worst -implement security baselines for forensic readiness in Azure

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Mary_Asaolu
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Aug 11, 2025

With over 200 services, monitoring Microsoft Azure efficiently can be challenging for some security teams. For incident response to be successful, the proper tools and logging systems should be in place—but that is usually easier said than done. It is important for organizations to prioritize intrusion prevention but also ensure that the right configurations are in place to identify the source of any intrusion or incident. Proactive readiness involves taking preventive measures even in the absence of an active threat, making the various stages of incident response more efficient. This blog post shares lessons learned from Microsoft experts during forensic investigations in Azure and highlights key configurations that can improve forensic accuracy and completeness.

Forensic readiness in the cloud Forensic readiness in the cloud refers to an organization’s ability to collect, preserve, and analyze digital evidence in preparation for security incidents. Foren...
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hdave1110
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Aug 30, 2025

Great article,

Always the lack of visibility, proper monitoring and auditing on the resources, especially on those hosted in the Cloud, conduct to a late discovery of the attacks, sometimes when is too late, and the only solution left are the disaster recovery procedures (if exists :).

In this scenario, the dificulty to identify the source and cause of the succesful attack, because of the lack of artifacts needed to conduct the forensics analysis, just creates premises for other future succesful attacks.