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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 2: Securing Compute Services

Speaking about cloud services, specifically Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), the most common resource everyone talks about is compute – from the traditional virtual machines (VMs), through managed databases (run on VMs on the backend), to modern compute architecture such as containers and eventually serverless.

This chapter will cover all types of compute services and provide you with best practices on how to securely deploy and manage each of them.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Securing VMs (authentication, network access control, metadata, serial console access, patch management, and backups)
  • Securing Managed Database Services (identity management, network access control, data protection, and auditing and monitoring)
  • Securing Containers (identity management, network access control, auditing and monitoring, and compliance)
  • Securing serverless/function as a service (identity management,...