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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 PCI DSS?

PCI DSS is an information security standard for storing, transferring, and processing credit card information, created by MasterCard, American Express, Visa, JCB International, and Discover Financial Services.

Any organization storing or processing credit card information should comply with PCI DSS. The PCI has the following requirements:

  • Use a firewall to protect the PCI environment
  • Set password policies
  • Protect stored credit card data
  • Encrypt credit card data at transit
  • Use anti-virus software
  • Conduct patch management
  • Restrict access to credit card data
  • Assign a unique identity to each person with access to credit card data
  • Restrict physical access to credit card data
  • Conduct log management
  • Conduct vulnerability assessments and penetration tests
  • Conduct risk assessments and document the process

Any provider or organization that stores, transfers, or processes credit card information should follow the...