Embracing cloud security
There are various providers of cloud computing both at the platform level and at the infrastructure level. All providers have security features native to them that might appear to be overwhelming at first. You only need to do a bit of studying to get up to speed.
Multi-factor authentication
We already discussed MFA in the previous section, but repeating it here will only reinforce its importance. Every cloud provider worth using will have MFA baked in. Ensure that all of your users utilize MFA.
Identity and access management
Identity and Access Management (IAM) is how you control access to what a user can do on your cloud platform. On a cloud platform, users aren’t limited to humans. They could also be services. When it comes to controlling or granting permissions, apply the principle of least privilege. This simply means that you grant privileges or permissions that let the user do only what they need to do. For example, on GCP, you can...
