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How do you use cloud audit logs to detect credential misuse and data exfiltration?

Cloud attackers mostly use the same APIs your engineers do. The scored answer collects the right logs, writes detections for attacker behaviour, and keeps the logs out of the attacker's reach.

mediumNewPreparation tags: Amazon, Google, MicrosoftUpdated Nov 2026

Cloud attackers mostly use the same APIs your engineers do. The scored answer collects the right logs, writes detections for attacker behaviour, and keeps the logs out of the attacker's reach.

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  3. 03 Name a condition that would change your decision.

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A company collects cloud control-plane audit logs from many accounts but has few detections built on them.

  1. What should be collected?
  2. Where should logs be stored?
  3. Which behaviours should trigger detections?
  4. What if logging itself is disabled?
  5. How do you make detections useful?
  6. What detection programme would you build?

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