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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)

Vulnerability, Pentest, and Patch Management

Continuous security monitoring is a very important part of an organization.

An attacker looking for a vulnerability will not wait for annual security audits or patches to happen every quarter. If they happen to find a vulnerability, they will go ahead and try to exploit it.

Along with this, new vulnerabilities will not wait for our vulnerability scanning, pen testing, and patch management life cycle to be discovered.

New vulnerabilities are discovered at any moment of time, and if they are of higher risks, then the organization has to make sure to mitigate the risk associated with it in order to prevent it from being exploited.

Before we go ahead and understand this in detail, let's understand three important terms that we will use quite often throughout the chapter:

  • Vulnerability
  • Exploit
  • Payload

We will take a simple analogy...