Cloud Forensics: When Breaches Go Cloud-Native, So Does Forensics.
Leverage SISA’s forensic intelligence to identify root causes, contain threats, and build defensible reports trusted by regulators.
the challenge
When Your Cloud Environment Shows Signs of Compromise, Misuse, or Unexplained Behavior, Forensics Must Begin Before Ephemeral Evidence Is Lost
Suspicious IAM changes, API spikes, or anomalous access keys
Public exposure of buckets, databases, or containers
Unusual egress traffic, object replication, or cross-region copies
Compromised CI or registry pipelines affecting production images
OAuth app abuse, mailbox forwarding rules, or mass downloads in SaaS
Our Approach
Our Approach
SISA’s Cloud Forensics Helps You Determine What Happened, Who Was Involved, and What Was Impacted Across Cloud, Identity, and SaaS Environments.
Identify affected accounts, subscriptions, projects, tenants, and regions
Establish preservation for logs, snapshots, and object versions
Coordinate roles and legal hold with your cloud and security teams
Capture CloudTrail, Azure Activity, GCP Audit, and control plane logs
Acquire workload snapshots, container images, and function code packages
Export identity and access logs from IdP, PAM, and CASB where in place
Link indicators to assets, roles, and API sequences
Detect persistence techniques like rogue roles, access keys, or token replay
Validate data access against storage logs and object metadata
Rebuild the attack path across identity, network, and data layers
Analyse container and serverless events alongside EDR findings
Confirm exfiltration using access logs, object version diffs, and egress trails
Remove persistence, rotate secrets, and re-issue certificates
Lock down misconfigured services, policies, and trust relationships
Recommend preventive controls like least privilege, conditional access, and service control policies
Deliver Root Cause Analysis, incident timeline, and affected data sets
Provide regulator-aligned summaries for PCI DSS, DPDP, GDPR where applicable
Outline a hardening roadmap that is practical to implement
Service Offerings
Our Cloud Forensics Provides the Reports, Evidence, and Action Plan Required to Investigate and Recover
Cloud Forensics Report: clear narrative of what happened and where
Evidence Inventory: logs, snapshots, images, and metadata with custody
Data Access Assessment: what was viewed, modified, or exfiltrated
Misconfiguration Map: issues tied directly to attack steps
Remediation Plan: prioritized actions with owner and effort guidance
BENEFITS
Our Cloud Forensics Helps You Move from Uncertainty to Clarity, Containment, and Stronger Control
Understand what was accessed or exposed through evidence-backed data access analysis
Contain and remediate faster with clear findings tied to attack activity and misconfigurations
Preserve defensible evidence for legal, regulatory, and internal review needs
Reduce recovery delays with prioritized remediation actions and implementation guidance
Strengthen cloud resilience by closing gaps in access, configuration, and monitoring controls
WHY SISA
SISA Cloud Forensics Brings Comprehensive Coverage, Identity-Level Visibility, and Defensible Reporting Across Complex Cloud Environments
Comprehensive Cloud Coverage:
End-to-end investigation across AWS, Azure, GCP, containerized and serverless environments, and leading SaaS platforms.
Identity-First Forensics:
Tracks actual user access and activity trails not just alerts.
Payments-Grade Expertise:
Deep understanding of digital payment environments and workloads handling sensitive data.
Fast, Defensible Reporting:
Clear, audit-ready findings trusted by acquirers, issuers, and regulators.
Seamless SOC Integration:
Option to pair with SISA ProACT Agentic SOC for continuous threat detection and rapid response.
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Hear what our customers say
Over the past three years, SISA has been a trusted cybersecurity partner, helping us strengthen our security posture through services such as Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS), Advanced Threat Hunting and monitoring via their ProACT Agentic SOC platform. Their practical, real-world threat simulations have provided valuable visibility into the effectiveness of our security controls, enabling us to identify gaps, prioritize improvements, and enhance threat detection and response capabilities. SISA’s expertise, responsiveness, and outcome-focused approach have made them a reliable partner in advancing our overall cybersecurity resilience.
Sreerag V M
Cybersecurity Manager in EqualizeRCM Services
SISA Sappers has been a trusted Digital Forensics and Incident Response partner, consistently demonstrating strong expertise in cybersecurity, incident response, digital forensics, and threat investigations. Their team delivers timely updates, maintains clear and effective communication, and provides comprehensive, well-structured reporting, ensuring transparency throughout each engagement. SISA collaborates closely with our internal teams to effectively manage and resolve complex cyber incidents and security challenges. Their professionalism, technical capabilities, and actionable recommendations have contributed significantly to strengthening our security posture, improving incident response capabilities, and enhancing overall cyber resilience.
MJ
Security Lead, A Leading Financial Institution in South East Asia
SISA’s Breach and Attack Simulation gave us practical visibility into how our security controls performed under real-world attack scenarios. The simulations across external, internal, and O365 environments helped us identify which controls were effective, where gaps existed, and what needed immediate attention. Because SISA’s detection capabilities were already integrated into our environment, we could also better understand how attacks were detected and handled across different stages of the simulation. What stood out most was the transparency of the engagement and the actionable guidance the team provided throughout the process.
Tej Pratap Bisht
Head of Cybersecurity & DevSecOps, Reach Mobile
FAQs
Cloud forensics is a specialized branch of digital investigation focused on identifying, preserving, and analyzing digital evidence resulting from a cyberattack or data breach within a cloud computing environment (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Cloud forensics is heavily utilized by SaaS providers, tech startups, and FinTech. However, any industry doing business that involves hosting critical data or web applications in the public cloud needs these services following a suspected breach.
In traditional forensics, investigators have physical access to hard drives. In the cloud, the underlying hardware is controlled by providers (like Amazon or Microsoft), meaning investigators must rely entirely on API logs, cloud telemetry, and virtual machine snapshots.
The most frequent cloud incidents include compromised Identity and Access Management (IAM) credentials, publicly exposed S3 storage buckets, cryptojacking (hijacking compute resources to mine crypto), and API key theft.
Investigators secure forensic images of compromised virtual machines (EC2/Azure VMs), extract memory dumps, and thoroughly analyze cloud-native management logs like AWS CloudTrail or Azure Activity Logs to reconstruct the attacker’s actions.
This model dictates that while the cloud provider is responsible for the security of the cloud (physical hardware), the customer is legally responsible for security in the cloud (data access, configurations, and application security).
Recovery depends heavily on the specific cloud architecture and whether automated backups or snapshot policies were configured. Unlike physical hard drives, deleted cloud storage blocks are often rapidly overwritten and unrecoverable without pre-existing snapshots.
SISA’s certified cloud forensic experts rapidly deploy to secure the compromised cloud tenant. We trace the attacker's API calls, identify the scope of data exfiltration, and provide immediate remediation steps to re-secure the cloud architecture.