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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)

Installation of OpenVPN

  1. Install the OpenVPN server:

In this step, you go ahead and install the OpenVPN RPM package available from their official repository. A simple yum install does the job:

~] yum install http://swupdate.openvpn.org/as/openvpn–as–2.1.9–CentOS6.x86_64.rpm

Once the installation is completed, it will give you a message about how you can access the UI for both the admin page as well the page needed for users to connect to:

  1. Set Password for the OpenVPN user:

In order to log in to the admin console, you need to set the password for the openvpn user. Use the passwd utility to set the password and this will be the admin password for your OpenVPN setup:

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Once the password is set, go to the admin console by typing the URL that was displayed in step 1. Make sure that you use the public IP address as in the AWS environment; generally, you will...