Emerging technology solutions have raised the bar considerably on what information security professionals can achieve by moving their DFIR workloads to the cloud. Information security teams have taken notice as they have discovered that cloud based DFIR platforms enable them to deploy a highly available and elastic solution that can be spun up quickly, ingest a large volume of collected data for analysis, store that data in a secure repository, and then shut down upon completion of the DFIR without making a major investment in technology infrastructure. In addition to technology approaches that enable IR in the cloud, the best strategy that allows you the ability to maximise both efficiency and performance is to adopt an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution. There are three advantages to an IaaS solution for conducting IR in the cloud:

• Nearly unlimited data storage
• Scalable compute power
• Accelerate incident analysis