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OpenStack Cloud Security

By : Fabio Alessandro Locati
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OpenStack Cloud Security

By: Fabio Alessandro Locati

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (14 chapters)
OpenStack Cloud Security
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we covered the compute component from a security standpoint. Securing OpenStack Nova is a critical part of securing the whole infrastructure and requires special caution since the biggest part is executed by making wise choices during the initial design of the cloud itself.

In this book, we have covered several theoretical concepts about how technologies used by OpenStack work, to understand better how to secure them; this is necessary to have a better understanding of how, what, and why the systems you are going to manage are structured. This, in turn, is necessary for security, since exploit and hardening methods change every day, while the ideas behind them tend to be less volatile. We also saw how to harden various parts of OpenStack to ensure that your system will resist all common attacks.