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Cloud Auditing Best Practices

You're reading from Cloud Auditing Best Practices Perform Security and IT Audits across AWS, Azure, and GCP by building effective cloud auditing plans

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803243771

Length 268 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Authors (2):

Michael Ratemo

Shinesa Cambric

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: The Basics of Cloud Architecture and Navigating – Understanding Enterprise Cloud Auditing Essentials

2. Chapter 1: Cloud Architecture and Navigation FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Effective Techniques for Preparing to Audit Cloud Environments

4. Part 2:Cloud Security and IT Controls

5. Chapter 3: Identity and Access Management Controls

6. Chapter 4: Network, Infrastructure, and Security Controls

7. Chapter 5: Financial Resource and Change Management Controls

8. Part 3:Executing an Effective Enterprise Cloud Audit Plan

9. Chapter 6: Tips and Techniques for Advanced Auditing

10. Chapter 7: Tools for Monitoring and Assessing

11. Chapter 8: Walk-Through – Assessing IAM Controls

12. Chapter 9: Walk-Through – Assessing Policy Settings and Resource Controls

13. Chapter 10: Walk-Through – Assessing Change Management, Logging, and Monitoring Policies

14. Index

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Index

As this ebook edition doesn't have fixed pagination, the page numbers below are hyperlinked for reference only, based on the printed edition of this book.

A

access assignment controls assessment 189

GCP 191-193

Microsoft Azure 190, 191

Access Control List (ACL) 167

activity logs

reviewing 56

within AWS 56

within Azure 57

within GCP 57

advanced auditing

preparing for 153, 154

Alerting feature 237

Alibaba Cloud 160

reference link 160

Aliyun 160

Amazon AWS EC2

navigating 10-14

Amazon AWS IAM 43, 44

reference link 44

Amazon CloudWatch 56, 164-170

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance 60

Amazon EventBridge

reference link 166

Amazon GuardDuty 56

Amazon Inspector 29, 170-172

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud 61

creating 61-66

deploying 67

Amazon Web Services (AWS) 59, 205, 206

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) 5

Application Programming...

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Authors (2)

Shinesa Cambric

Shinesa Cambric

Shinesa Cambric (CCSP, CISSP, CISA, CISM, CDPSE) is a cloud security, compliance, and identity architect with expertise in the design and implementation of security architecture and controls. Her experience includes designing IAM and governance solutions, building insider threat programs, and providing subject matter expertise on the intersection of governance, risk, and compliance with IT and application security. She is a certification content advisor for CertNexus and CompTIA, her work has been included in global forums, such as RSAC and DevOps, and she is a contributing author to the books 97 Things Every Information Security Professional Should Know and Shifting Security Left. Shinesa volunteers, provides subject matter expertise, and mentors with several organizations, including Cloud Security Alliance, fwd:cloudsec, Women in Cyber Security (WiCys), Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), as a training lead with the Women's Society of Cyberjutsu, and as a board member with non-profit group Cloud Girls.

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Michael Ratemo

Michael Ratemo

Michael Ratemo (CISSP, CISA, CISM, GCSA, CCSK, CIA) is a cybersecurity leader and Principal Consultant at Cyber Security Simplified. He speaks security in a language businesses can understand and has built a career creating effective security strategies that are customized to protect organizations. He is skilled in elevating the effectiveness of an organization's security programs, to help drive business value and mitigate risks across large and complex environments. In addition, Michael is the author of the LinkedIn Learning Course, Building and Auditing a Cyber Security Program. Michael holds a BS in Computer Science and engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington, and an MBA from the University of North Texas.

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