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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

Best practices for deploying secrets management services

All major cloud providers have a secrets management service.

The term secrets refers to database credentials, API keys, tokens, usernames/passwords, and more. The fundamental concept behind secrets management services is to allow you to store such sensitive information in a secured location, with authorization and audit mechanisms, while allowing users and service accounts to securely retrieve secrets, without having to store the information in cleartext in configuration files.

Since the cloud environment is highly dynamic, it is recommended to have a central and secure repository for storing, generating, and retrieving secrets.

DevOps teams can benefit from secrets management services by redirecting their code to the secrets management services, instead of embedding sensitive information (secrets, credentials, access keys, and more) inside cleartext code.

AWS Secrets Manager

AWS Secrets Manager is Amazon&apos...