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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

What is a SOC report?

SOC is a reporting framework that allows cloud providers to communicate the effectiveness of their cybersecurity risk management program to certified public accountants (CPAs) and broad-range stakeholders—customers, among others.

Any organization that provides cloud services should consider complying with the SOC standard. A SOC is made up of the following type of reports:

  • SOC 1—A financial statement:
    • SOC 1 Type 1—An attestation of controls for a CSP at a specific point in time
    • SOC 1 Type 2—An attestation of controls for a CSP and their effectiveness over a minimum 6-month period
  • SOC 2—A report of controls relevant to security, availability, integrity, and confidentiality or privacy
    • SOC 2 Type 1—A description of cloud providers' systems and suitability of the design of controls
    • SOC 2 Type 2—A description of cloud providers' systems and suitability of the design of controls and the effectiveness...