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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)

Key management service

AWS KMS is a managed service that allows users to create and control the secret keys, which use HSM on the backend.

In this approach, customers do not get a dedicated access to HSM and get something similar to a shared approach. This reduces the cost tremendously followed by the time and efforts spent to manage an HSM appliance.

AWS KMS brings a lot of benefits such as being very simple to use, provides built-in auditing, is low cost, and compliant against various standards, including FIPS 140, PCI DSS, and ISO 27001.

The cost of KMS depends on the API request that is being sent. As of today, the cost is rounded to $0.03 per 10,000 requests. There is no upfront cost, which makes it easily affordable for everyone.

Please check the latest documentation for pricing.

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