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Enterprise Cloud Security and Governance

By : Zeal Vora
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Enterprise Cloud Security and Governance

By: Zeal Vora

Overview of this book

Modern day businesses and enterprises are moving to the Cloud, to improve efficiency and speed, achieve flexibility and cost effectiveness, and for on-demand Cloud services. However, enterprise Cloud security remains a major concern because migrating to the public Cloud requires transferring some control over organizational assets to the Cloud provider. There are chances these assets can be mismanaged and therefore, as a Cloud security professional, you need to be armed with techniques to help businesses minimize the risks and misuse of business data. The book starts with the basics of Cloud security and offers an understanding of various policies, governance, and compliance challenges in Cloud. This helps you build a strong foundation before you dive deep into understanding what it takes to design a secured network infrastructure and a well-architected application using various security services in the Cloud environment. Automating security tasks, such as Server Hardening with Ansible, and other automation services, such as Monit, will monitor other security daemons and take the necessary action in case these security daemons are stopped maliciously. In short, this book has everything you need to secure your Cloud environment with. It is your ticket to obtain industry-adopted best practices for developing a secure, highly available, and fault-tolerant architecture for organizations.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

The IPS functionality

This is one of the well-sought features, and IPS are used in conjunction with a feature called virtual patching, which is quite interesting.

Let's assume that there is a vulnerability present in a public web server that is still not patched. In a generic approach, an attacker can easily fire an exploit and send the payload to the server. However, as a part of virtual patching, the IPS will block the exploit even though the vulnerability is present on the server.

This is especially useful in many cases, where upgrading software might not be possible due to business reasons.

A real-world example

We had an important database server running on MySQL. After a few months, a high-risk vulnerability was...