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Cloud Security Automation
Cloud Security Automation

Cloud Security Automation: Get to grips with automating your cloud security on AWS and OpenStack

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Cloud Security Automation

Understanding the World of Cloud Automation

First, we must understand what automation means. In layman's terms, we can say that automation is to automate or process something without requiring any human intervention.

Once we have automated the process, it will perform all the activity automatically as per the flow or sequence.

We all know that manual activity is prone to errors and mistakes. To eliminate this, we automate the process using different tools. Automation not only eliminates errors and mistakes, but also saves time and costs.

We are in the era of the cloud, where automation is the utmost requirement everywhere. Organizations are now focused toward automation for improving quality of service while at the same time saving on costs and time.

DevOps is a combination of the following two words:

  • Development: This denotes the development of applications 
  • Operations...

What is DevOps?

DevOps is a combination of culture, practice, and tools that increase the ability to deploy and deliver applications and services. It also helps us improve the product and service delivery faster in comparison to a traditional development model.

DevOps, as we read earlier, merges two teams into one to manage the complete development life cycle. Alternatively, there can be multiple teams responsible for each activity. As well as, the DevOps process is also tightly coupled with the security and quality teams in a full cycle.

We say DevOps is a practice because here we practice how to automate the process that was defined in history and was manual, complex, and slow.

"DevOps isn't any single person's job. It's everyone's job."
– Christophe Capel, Principal Product Manager, JIRA Service Desk

To automate the process, we use...

Infrastructure as Code

Now, as you have already learned about the basic fundamentals of DevOps, let's start to understand it by example. As an example, I will use the CloudFormation template to describe how easy and fast it is to deploy solutions in AWS.

CloudFormation is an AWS service that is used to provision your IT Infrastructure as Code. Once it's coded, you can deploy it in any region, and it also gives you facility to customize it as per your own wishes.

As we can see in the following screenshot, CloudFormation gives you a very rich GUI where you can drag and drop the required components and establish relations between them, and in backend code is automatically generated in the JSON and YAML formats. Once you are done drawing using drag and drop, you save this as a template and start deployment:

In CloudFormation, we generate code in the...

Automate deployment – AWS OpsWorks

AWS OpsWorks provides configuration management using managed Chef and Puppet instances. This helps you automate your deployment, configuration, and management processes.

In AWS OpsWorks, we create a stack that is a collection of resources such as your web server, load balancer, and database servers. After that, we have a layer where we define the configuration of components. As per AWS:

"A layer is a blueprint for a set of Amazon EC2 instances. It specifies the instance's settings, associated resources, installed packages, profiles, and security groups."

After adding the layer, we have a list of the instances that will be running our workload, and then the application will be deployed on the infrastructure. Finally, there is monitoring, which monitors the infrastructure.

The only limitation with OpsWorks is that...

Quick recap

DevOps is a combination of culture, practice, and tools, which increases the ability to deploy and deliver applications and services. It helps to hasten the development and delivery process using automation.

The traditional way, when we were doing things manually, made the process slower, which delayed delivery. In contrast, using DevOps, things become faster.  

The benefits of automation are:

  • Time and cost saving
  • Faster deployment and delivery
  • Elimination of human error
  • Improved collaboration
  • Easy security implementation

In AWS we have seen that there are many services available to help you in automating the process too, such as Elastic Beanstalk, OpsWorks, and CloudFormation.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk helps us deploy our code developed in few clicks using Elastic Beanstalk, and it also helps us set up a blue-green deployment model, which is also known as...

Summary

This chapter was all about automation, the automation process, and the tools, needs, and benefits of cloud automation. In the next chapter, we will have a look at Identity and Access Management in the cloud.

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Key benefits

  • • Take your cloud security functions to the next level by automation
  • • Learn to automate your security functions on AWS and OpenStack
  • • Practical approach towards securing your workloads efficiently

Description

Security issues are still a major concern for all IT organizations. For many enterprises, the move to cloud computing has raised concerns for security, but when applications are architected with focus on security, cloud platforms can be made just as secure as on-premises platforms. Cloud instances can be kept secure by employing security automation that helps make your data meet your organization's security policy. This book starts with the basics of why cloud security is important and how automation can be the most effective way of controlling cloud security. You will then delve deeper into the AWS cloud environment and its security services by dealing with security functions such as Identity and Access Management and will also learn how these services can be automated. Moving forward, you will come across aspects such as cloud storage and data security, automating cloud deployments, and so on. Then, you'll work with OpenStack security modules and learn how private cloud security functions can be automated for better time- and cost-effectiveness. Toward the end of the book, you will gain an understanding of the security compliance requirements for your Cloud. By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience of automating your cloud security and governance.

Who is this book for?

This book is targeted at DevOps Engineers, Security professionals, or any stakeholders responsible for securing cloud workloads. Prior experience with AWS or OpenStack will be an advantage.

What you will learn

  • • Define security for public and private
  • cloud services
  • • Address the security concerns of
  • your cloud
  • • Understand Identity and Access
  • Management
  • • Get acquainted with cloud storage
  • and network security
  • • Improve and optimize public
  • and private cloud security
  • • Automate cloud security
  • • Understand the security compliance
  • requirements of your cloud
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Table of Contents

10 Chapters
Introduction to Cloud Security Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Understanding the World of Cloud Automation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Identity and Access Management in the Cloud Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Cloud Network Security Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Cloud Storage and Data Security Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Cloud Platform Security Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Private Cloud Security Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Automating Cloud Security Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Cloud Compliance Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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If you are looking for automation using boto3 and python this book does not have it. The author however gives a high level overview of AWS apps that you could use for monitoring and improving the security posture of your AWS assets.
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Most of the book is just going through the various AWS security services. You can get the same result from reading thru the AWS doco. The title is pretty misleading as it's not about security automation at all. No examples about using any tooling to automate security AT ALL. I can't believe the author is actually charging $44 for the book! They should be paying me for wasting an hour of my time to go thru it!
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