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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

Setting up the requirements for integrated security

Before a company gets into buying licenses for all sorts of security tools, security architects will need to gather requirements. That is done in the following four stages that a security team needs to cover:

  1. Detect: Most security tools focus on detecting vulnerabilities and actual attacks or attempts to breach systems. Some examples are endpoint protection, such as virus scanners and malware detection, and Network Traffic Analyzers (NTAs). In multi-cloud, architects need to make sure that detection systems can operate on all platforms and preferably send information to one integrated dashboard.
  2. Analyze: This is the next phase. Detection systems will send a lot of data, including false positives. Ideally, security monitoring does a first analysis of events, checking them against known patterns and behavior of systems and users. This is the first filter. The second phase in the analysis is prioritization, which is...