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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 have focused on the various monitoring/auditing, threat management, and incident response services in AWS, Azure, and GCP.

We learned how to enable auditing in our cloud environments. We also learned how to use built-in security services to monitor compliance by gathering information from multiple event sources. We reviewed the built-in services that enable us to detect and respond to threats in large-scale environments.

In this chapter, we have also reviewed the steps to conduct incident response by using built-in services (including preparation, detection, response, and finally recovery to normal actions).

In the next chapter, we will review cryptography in various aspects (encryption fundamentals, differences between symmetric and asymmetric algorithms, key management services, secrets management, and encryption at transit and at rest).