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Hybrid Cloud Security Patterns

By : Sreekanth Iyer
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Hybrid Cloud Security Patterns

By: Sreekanth Iyer

Overview of this book

Security is a primary concern for enterprises going through digital transformation and accelerating their journey to multi-cloud environments. This book recommends a simple pattern-based approach to architecting, designing and implementing security for workloads deployed on AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and IBM Cloud. The book discusses enterprise modernization trends and related security opportunities and challenges. You’ll understand how to implement identity and access management for your cloud resources and applications. Later chapters discuss patterns to protect cloud infrastructure (compute, storage and network) and provide protection for data at rest, in transit and in use. You’ll also learn how to shift left and include security in the early stages of application development to adopt DevSecOps. The book also deep dives into threat monitoring, configuration and vulnerability management, and automated incident response. Finally, you’ll discover patterns to implement security posture management backed with intelligence and automated protection to stay ahead of threats. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned all the hybrid cloud security patterns and be able to use them to create zero trust architecture that provides continuous security and compliance for your cloud workloads.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Cloud Security
3
Chapter 2: Understanding Shared Responsibility Model for Cloud Security
4
Part 2: Identity and Access Management Patterns
7
Part 3: Infrastructure Security Patterns
10
Part 4: Data and Application Security Patterns
13
Part 5: Cloud Security Posture Management and Zero Trust Architecture
14
Chapter 9: Managing the Security Posture for Your Cloud Deployments
15
Chapter 10: Building Zero Trust Architecture with Hybrid Cloud Security Patterns

Cloud Identity and Access Management

Enterprises need a seamless way to provide access for their users to applications and resources on multiple clouds. Identity and Access Management (IAM) is the core component for managing identity across a hybrid cloud. This has two important considerations to manage and solve:

  • How to manage identity and access for users to cloud resources, services, and platforms, which is typically referred to as Cloud IAM.
  • How to manage identity and access for users for cloud applications, often referred to as IAM for cloud applications

IAM deals with identifying a user and cloud resources and managing access to these resources for the user, based on policies. IAM provides fine-grained access control to cloud resources and services under specific conditions. IAM policies define and manage permissions for each user to specific resources. IAM goals are more business-aligned than technical components. Enterprises need a robust and mature IAM capability...