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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

Securing serverless/function as a service

Although the name implies that there are no servers, the term serverless or function as a service means that you, as a customer of the service, are not in charge of the underlying compute infrastructure (operating system maintenance, scale, runtime management, and so on) – you simply import your code (according to the supported language by each cloud provider), select your preferred runtime, select the amount of required memory per function (which affects the amount of CPU), and set the trigger to invoke the function.

The following diagram presents the architectural differences between VMs, containers, and serverless:

Figure 2.2 – VMs versus containers versus serverless

In this section, I will present the most common serverless/function as a service platforms.

Then, we are going to see what the best practices are for securing common serverless services from AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Securing AWS Lambda...