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Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Architects - Second Edition

By : Jeroen Mulder
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Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Architects - Second Edition

By: Jeroen Mulder

Overview of this book

Are you ready to unlock the full potential of your enterprise with the transformative power of multi-cloud adoption? As a cloud architect, you understand the challenges of navigating the vast array of cloud services and moving data and applications to public clouds. But with 'Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Architects, Second Edition', you'll gain the confidence to tackle these complexities head-on. This edition delves into the latest concepts of BaseOps, FinOps, and DevSecOps, including the use of the DevSecOps Maturity Model. You'll learn how to optimize costs and maximize security using the major public clouds - Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. Examples of solutions by the increasingly popular Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Alibaba Cloud have been added in this edition. Plus, you will discover cutting-edge ideas like AIOps and GreenOps. With practical use cases, including IoT, data mining, Web3, and financial management, this book empowers you with the skills needed to develop, release, and manage products and services in a multi-cloud environment. By the end of this book, you'll have mastered the intricacies of multi-cloud operations, financial management, and security. Don't miss your chance to revolutionize your enterprise with multi-cloud adoption.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Index

Defining Security Policies for Data

Data is an important asset of any company. Enterprises store their data more and more in multi-cloud setups. How do they secure data? All cloud platforms have technologies to encrypt data but differ in how they apply encryption and store and handle keys. But data will move from one cloud to another or to user devices, so it needs to be secured in transit, next to data at rest. This is done with encryption, using encryption keys. These keys need to be secured as well, preventing non-authorized users from accessing the keys and encrypted data.

Before we discuss data protection itself, we will briefly talk about data models and how we can classify data. We will explore the different storage solutions the major clouds offer. Next, we will learn how data can be protected by defining policies for data loss prevention (DLP), labeling information to control access, and using encryption.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the...