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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)

Risk mitigation

Risk mitigation involves either fixing the vulnerability or providing some kind of control through which the likelihood or the impact of the flaw is taken care of.

For example, there is a high-level vulnerability in an OpenSSH server. The patching of software might take some time, so in order to mitigate the risk, the system administrator has only allowed the office IP to be able to connect via SSH to the servers.

A sample scan report

Now that we understand the basics of vulnerability, CVSS scores, and risks, we will take a sample vulnerability assessment report of one of the workstations and understand more about it. This scan has been performed by Nessus:

If we look at the previous screenshot, we can see...