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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

How to Secure Compute Infrastructure

In this chapter, we will learn about the patterns that can be leveraged to secure a hybrid cloud compute infrastructure. A modern hybrid cloud infrastructure consists of the following compute types:

  • Bare-metal servers
  • Virtual machines (VMs)
  • Containers
  • Serverless

Depending on the type of compute, the pattern for securing them also varies. The following diagram shows the different protection patterns for compute that will be discussed in this chapter:

Figure 5.1 – Patterns for securing cloud compute infrastructure

In the shared responsibility model for cloud security, the roles and responsibilities between the cloud provider and consumer change based on the compute type consumed from the cloud. We will discuss patterns to provide isolation to varying degrees and security for bare-metal servers, VMs, containers, and serverless compute types.

We will cover the following main topics in this...