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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

Encryption in use

At this point, we understand the concept of protecting data using encryption in transit and encryption at rest. There is still one place we need to protect data – while the data is being used in the server's memory; that is, encryption in use.

AWS Nitro Enclaves

AWS offers its customers a unique architecture that creates an isolated environment for storing sensitive information (such as PII, credit card numbers, and healthcare data), which separates customers' data from the EC2 instance itself while using AWS KMS for data encryption.

For more information, please refer to the following resources:

AWS Nitro Enclaves:

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/nitro-enclaves/

How AWS Nitro Enclaves uses AWS KMS:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kms/latest/developerguide/services-nitro-enclaves.html

Azure Confidential Computing

Azure Confidential Computing uses hardware to isolate data. Data can be encrypted in use by running it in a Trusted...