This guide provides a structured incident response playbook for detecting, investigating, and containing privilege escalation in Amazon EKS environments, where attackers gain elevated access through misconfigured IAM roles, RBAC policies, or pod identities. It emphasizes prevention through least-privilege access, strong RBAC controls, and network segmentation, alongside visibility using CloudTrail, Kubernetes audit logs, and runtime monitoring. Detection focuses on identifying suspicious role changes and API activity, while investigation involves tracing affected resources and analyzing behavior context. Containment includes isolating compromised workloads and revoking access, followed by remediation and policy tightening. The key takeaway is that continuous visibility, strict access contr

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