How does cloud adoption impact incident response processes in cybersecurity?

Cloud adoption transforms how incident response (IR) is conducted. Unlike traditional IT environments, cloud environments involve shared responsibility, provider collaboration, and remote orchestration. This shift requires security teams to adjust response strategies, tools, and governance to effectively detect, analyze, and remediate incidents.

Cloud-specific tools (e.g., CSP logs, API calls, auto-scaling environments) must be incorporated into IR plans. Coordination with cloud service providers is often necessary to access logs, enforce controls, or conduct forensics.

This transformation is outlined in Domain 9: Incident Response, which stresses that effective IR in the cloud must be pre-planned and adapted to each provider and cloud model.