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Cloud Security Handbook

By : Eyal Estrin
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Cloud Security Handbook

By: Eyal Estrin

Overview of this book

Securing resources in the cloud is challenging, given that each provider has different mechanisms and processes. Cloud Security Handbook helps you to understand how to embed security best practices in each of the infrastructure building blocks that exist in public clouds. This book will enable information security and cloud engineers to recognize the risks involved in public cloud and find out how to implement security controls as they design, build, and maintain environments in the cloud. You'll begin by learning about the shared responsibility model, cloud service models, and cloud deployment models, before getting to grips with the fundamentals of compute, storage, networking, identity management, encryption, and more. Next, you'll explore common threats and discover how to stay in compliance in cloud environments. As you make progress, you'll implement security in small-scale cloud environments through to production-ready large-scale environments, including hybrid clouds and multi-cloud environments. This book not only focuses on cloud services in general, but it also provides actual examples for using AWS, Azure, and GCP built-in services and capabilities. By the end of this cloud security book, you'll have gained a solid understanding of how to implement security in cloud environments effectively.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: Securing Infrastructure Cloud Services
6
Section 2: Deep Dive into IAM, Auditing, and Encryption
10
Section 3: Threats and Compliance Management
14
Section 4: Advanced Use of Cloud Services

Chapter 8: Understanding Common Security Threats to Cloud Services

In Chapters 2-7, we covered the fundamental building blocks of securing cloud services (including services for compute, storage, networking, identity and access management (IAM), auditing, threat management, and incident response), as well as looking at encryption for cloud services.

This chapter will cover the other side of the equation: common security threats to cloud services. We will also consider how to mitigate these threats.

Knowing the threats your organization faces when using cloud services will give you an understanding of what to look for and how to better protect your cloud environments in advance. Getting hacked is more a question of when rather than if, so the knowledge presented in this chapter should help you to be prepared for such an eventuality.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • The MITRE ATT&CK framework
  • Detecting and mitigating data breaches in cloud...