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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)

Continuous security and monitoring

In June 2017, one of the mid-sized organizations was breached and the entire database was downloaded by the hackers. The irony was that the organization didn't even know anything until the hacker was selling the database details on the dark web after a few months.

Even though they had implemented decent security controls, the thing that was lacking was a continuous security monitoring. The lack of continuous security monitoring is one of the most common things that you might find in a startup or mid-sized organization.

This is one of the reasons why continuous security monitoring needs to become an integral part of the modern security architectures.

Continuous security monitoring gives us the ability to trace what exactly is happening within the environment in a timely manner, as timely detection is important to implement prevention.

Having...