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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

Summary

In this chapter, we focused on common security threats to cloud services.

For each of the identified threats, we reviewed potential consequences of the threat, a common example of the threat, and the best practices to detect and mitigate the threat, and after that, we reviewed the built-in services from AWS, Azure, and GCP that allow you to protect your cloud environment.

Knowing the most common threats you face when using cloud services and the various built-in cloud service capabilities will allow you to better protect your cloud environment.

In the next chapter, we will review compliance standards for cloud security (such as ISO 27001, Security Operations Centre (SOC), Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Star, and more) and the European GDPR privacy regulation, the PCI DSS, and the HIPAA laws.