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Cloud Security Automation

By : Prashant Priyam
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Cloud Security Automation

By: Prashant Priyam

Overview of this book

Security issues are still a major concern for all IT organizations. For many enterprises, the move to cloud computing has raised concerns for security, but when applications are architected with focus on security, cloud platforms can be made just as secure as on-premises platforms. Cloud instances can be kept secure by employing security automation that helps make your data meet your organization's security policy. This book starts with the basics of why cloud security is important and how automation can be the most effective way of controlling cloud security. You will then delve deeper into the AWS cloud environment and its security services by dealing with security functions such as Identity and Access Management and will also learn how these services can be automated. Moving forward, you will come across aspects such as cloud storage and data security, automating cloud deployments, and so on. Then, you'll work with OpenStack security modules and learn how private cloud security functions can be automated for better time- and cost-effectiveness. Toward the end of the book, you will gain an understanding of the security compliance requirements for your Cloud. By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience of automating your cloud security and governance.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Glance – OpenStack image storage


In OpenStack, we have a different storage type called image storage. Glance service provides image storage in OpenStack. Glance stores images and metadata information related to images.

Like other services, Glance also provides REST API to perform activities such as discovering, registering and retrieving images.

Now, let's see how one can score the Glance (image storage):

  • We must ensure that Glance configuration files only have ownership of the root user and Glance group. This will help to control unauthorized access and modification or deletion of configuration files. These configuration files are as follows:
    • /etc/glance/glance-api-paste.ini
    • /etc/glance/glance-api.conf
    • /etc/glance/glance-cache.conf
    • /etc/glance/glance-manage.conf
    • /etc/glance/glance-registry-paste.ini
    • /etc/glance/glance-registry.conf
    • /etc/glance/glance-scrubber.conf
    • /etc/glance/glance-swift-store.conf
    • /etc/glance/policy.json
    • /etc/glance/schema-image.json
    • etc/glance/schema.json
  • All of the communication...