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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

Introduction to compliance with regulatory requirements and industry best practices

Law and regulations are mandatory for any organization conducting business, storing and processing sensitive data (such as PII, credit card information, healthcare information, and more), and serving customers in either private or public environments, and the cloud environment is no different.

Standards are optionally considered as a best practice and, in many cases, provide an organization leverage for conducting business—for example, compliance with ISO 27001 shows customers and business partners that an organization has achieved a certain level of maturity in information security management (ISM).

The best way to manage compliance in cloud services as an automated and ongoing process is to constantly review your entire cloud environment, present the information, dashboards, and reports, and fix settings and resources that are in a non-compliant status.

How to maintain compliance in...