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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 Fundamentals of Cloud Security

This chapter, being the first chapter of this book, aims at establishing the base of cloud security, based on which we will discuss all the subsequent chapters in detail. Most chapters in this book will cover specific topics and challenges that one might face in implementing security in the cloud. In this chapter, however, we will cover the basics of cloud computing and the associated security aspect that will help us get started.

We can think of this chapter as the basic principles on which the security practices need to be applied.