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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)

AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda is yet another amazing service that allows us to run code without making provision for any servers.

One of the things that makes it great is that we just have to upload our code in Lambda and Lambda will take care of all the things related to scaling and high availability.

Things that make it special for the security and DevOps folks is that we can make the Lambda code trigger automatically from other AWS services such as CloudWatch.

Cost optimization

Large Corp. has 700 servers on AWS, out of which 100 servers are a part of the Dev environment. Due to the increased monthly cost of AWS, there has been pressure from higher management to optimize the resources. In response to this, your team has decided...