You're reading from Enterprise Cloud Security and Governance Efficiently set data protection and privacy principles

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788299558

Length 410 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

Cloud Security

Author (1):

Zeal Vora

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. The Fundamentals of Cloud Security FREE CHAPTER

2. Defense in Depth Approach

3. Designing Defensive Network Infrastructure

4. Server Hardening

5. Cryptography Network Security

6. Automation in Security

7. Vulnerability, Pentest, and Patch Management

8. Security Logging and Monitoring

9. First Responder

10. Best Practices

Pluggable authentication modules

Pluggable authentication modules (PAM) is one of the ancient corners that most system administrators don't get into. However, PAM modules play a very important role in the background.

In this section, we will understand in detail about PAM as well as implement PAM modules to achieve certain use cases related to security.

Let's understand PAM with the following use cases of Team Screen application and file sharing application in the following sections.

Team Screen application

There is an application named Team Screen that allows users to access Linux workstations via GUI. In order to do so, the application requires an authentication-related functionality. Thus, any user who wants to...

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Authors (1)

Vora

Zeal Vora works as a DevSecOps Engineer primarily in the area of Defensive Security. He spends his days protecting and implementing security controls to help mitigate attacks both on the Cloud and servers. He is actively involved in security consultation, helping various startups which have been breached to overcome the breach and start again with a secure infrastructure.

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