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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

Tips for contracts with cloud providers

A good contract protects your organization when engaging with cloud providers, since you do not have physical control over your data. You do not always have the ability to influence contracts with cloud providers.

To consume IaaS services, all you need is a credit card number. As a small organization, you will get the same contract as all other customers receive, and once you agree with the contractual terms, you cannot make any changes.

If you are able to commit to a large consumption of cloud services, you may contact your IaaS provider and sign an agreement, such as the AWS Enterprise Discount Program (EDP) or Azure EA agreements, to be able to negotiate pricing terms.

To use SaaS services, you sign a contract with your chosen SaaS provider, where you have the ability to influence the contract terms – much more than just pricing topics.

In this section, we will review common topics that should be negotiated and be embedded...