You're reading from Hybrid Cloud Security Patterns Leverage modern repeatable architecture patterns to secure your workloads on the cloud

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803233581

Length 252 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Sreekanth Iyer

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Introduction to Cloud Security

2. Chapter 1: Opportunities and Challenges with Hybrid Multi-cloud Solutions FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Understanding Shared Responsibility Model for Cloud Security

4. Part 2: Identity and Access Management Patterns

5. Chapter 3: Cloud Identity and Access Management

6. Chapter 4: Implementing Identity and Access Management for Cloud Applications

7. Part 3: Infrastructure Security Patterns

8. Chapter 5: How to Secure Compute Infrastructure

9. Chapter 6: Implementing Network Isolation, Secure Connectivity, and Protection

10. Part 4: Data and Application Security Patterns

11. Chapter 7: Data Security Patterns

12. Chapter 8: Shift Left Security for DevOps

13. Part 5: Cloud Security Posture Management and Zero Trust Architecture

14. Chapter 9: Managing the Security Posture for Your Cloud Deployments

15. Chapter 10: Building Zero Trust Architecture with Hybrid Cloud Security Patterns

16. Index

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Problem

The next key area to be discussed in the stack is how to protect and secure hypervisors.

Context

Virtualization and automation are the key enablers for the cloud. The virtualization layer sits between the physical infrastructure and the VMs. A hypervisor or VM manager is used to run numerous guest VMs and applications simultaneously on a single host machine and to provide separation between the guest VMs. As shown in the following diagram, virtualization provides a way to slice and dice physical infrastructure and provide this as VMs with variable configurations to the end users. The virtualization technology is delivered by hypervisors:

Figure 5.5 – Hypervisor types

As shown in the preceding diagram, there are two types of hypervisors. The Type 1 hypervisor is a component that sits directly on top of the bare-metal infrastructure. In the case of Type 2 hypervisors, there will be a host...