Defining Security Policies

Whatever we do in the cloud needs to be secure. Cloud providers only provide tools. You need to define how to use these tools. In order to determine what these tools should do, you need to think about what type of assets you want to protect and how you need to protect them. There are quite a number of security baselines—for example, the baseline as defined by the Center for Internet Security (CIS), which provides guidelines.

In this chapter, we will learn what a security framework is and why it’s important as a starting point for security policies. We will discover what we need to protect in our cloud environments. Next, we will look at the globally adopted CIS benchmark for Azure, AWS, GCP, Alibaba Cloud, and OCI and learn how to implement CIS using the security suites of these platforms. We will then learn what the difference is between security governance and management, and lastly, study Cloud Security Posture Management ...