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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

Conducting incident response and digital forensics

Incident response and forensics are challenging in cloud environments for several reasons:

  • Our entire environment is stored at a physical location, managed by an external service provider.
  • Our entire environment is split between our on-premises and a cloud provider (also known as a hybrid cloud environment).
  • Our entire environment is split between multiple cloud providers (also known as a multi-cloud environment).
  • Our cloud environment is in multiple regions or multiple cloud accounts (such as across an AWS account, Azure subscriptions, and GCP projects), and we might lack visibility to all resources deployed in our cloud environment or information about who owns or manages those accounts.
  • According to the shared responsibility model, we may not have visibility for actions done by our cloud provider (such as a cloud engineer making changes to a managed database or performing a backup or restore from an SaaS...