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Cloud Auditing Best Practices

You're reading from Cloud Auditing Best Practices Perform Security and IT Audits across AWS, Azure, and GCP by building effective cloud auditing plans

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803243771

Length 268 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Authors (2):

Michael Ratemo

Shinesa Cambric

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: The Basics of Cloud Architecture and Navigating – Understanding Enterprise Cloud Auditing Essentials

2. Chapter 1: Cloud Architecture and Navigation FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Effective Techniques for Preparing to Audit Cloud Environments

4. Part 2:Cloud Security and IT Controls

5. Chapter 3: Identity and Access Management Controls

6. Chapter 4: Network, Infrastructure, and Security Controls

7. Chapter 5: Financial Resource and Change Management Controls

8. Part 3:Executing an Effective Enterprise Cloud Audit Plan

9. Chapter 6: Tips and Techniques for Advanced Auditing

10. Chapter 7: Tools for Monitoring and Assessing

11. Chapter 8: Walk-Through – Assessing IAM Controls

12. Chapter 9: Walk-Through – Assessing Policy Settings and Resource Controls

13. Chapter 10: Walk-Through – Assessing Change Management, Logging, and Monitoring Policies

14. Index

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Security control centers

Each of the three major cloud service providers offers functionality and configurable controls to support setting up virtual private networks for your cloud resources. The cloud service providers have designed their portals to make it intuitive for anyone to set up a virtual private network for cloud resources.

AWS refers to its virtual network as a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Azure refers to its virtual network as a Virtual Network (VNet), and GCP refers to its virtual network as a Virtual Private Cloud. A virtual network is divided into subnetworks, also known as subnets.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

Amazon’s VPC is a core AWS service and allows you to create a virtual network for resources in an isolated section of the Amazon Web Services cloud. Within the VPC, a user can define network configurations such as IP address range as well as route tables and manage network gateways and subnets. Subnets are smaller separate parts of the overall...

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Authors (2)

Shinesa Cambric

Shinesa Cambric

Shinesa Cambric (CCSP, CISSP, CISA, CISM, CDPSE) is a cloud security, compliance, and identity architect with expertise in the design and implementation of security architecture and controls. Her experience includes designing IAM and governance solutions, building insider threat programs, and providing subject matter expertise on the intersection of governance, risk, and compliance with IT and application security. She is a certification content advisor for CertNexus and CompTIA, her work has been included in global forums, such as RSAC and DevOps, and she is a contributing author to the books 97 Things Every Information Security Professional Should Know and Shifting Security Left. Shinesa volunteers, provides subject matter expertise, and mentors with several organizations, including Cloud Security Alliance, fwd:cloudsec, Women in Cyber Security (WiCys), Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), as a training lead with the Women's Society of Cyberjutsu, and as a board member with non-profit group Cloud Girls.

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Michael Ratemo

Michael Ratemo

Michael Ratemo (CISSP, CISA, CISM, GCSA, CCSK, CIA) is a cybersecurity leader and Principal Consultant at Cyber Security Simplified. He speaks security in a language businesses can understand and has built a career creating effective security strategies that are customized to protect organizations. He is skilled in elevating the effectiveness of an organization's security programs, to help drive business value and mitigate risks across large and complex environments. In addition, Michael is the author of the LinkedIn Learning Course, Building and Auditing a Cyber Security Program. Michael holds a BS in Computer Science and engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington, and an MBA from the University of North Texas.

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