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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803243771
Length 268 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michael Ratemo Michael Ratemo
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:
The Basics of Cloud Architecture and Navigating – Understanding Enterprise Cloud Auditing Essentials FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Cloud Architecture and Navigation 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 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Identity and Access Management Controls

Identity and access management (IAM) components are key areas to assess for risk and compliance of any system, and this holds especially true for cloud environments where there may no longer be physical controls to mitigate risk and provide a gatekeeping function to critical services and applications. Security breaches within cloud environments are widely acknowledged to be because of cloud misconfigurations, and the ability to configure (or misconfigure) cloud services requires an account with access to those services. Ensuring the appropriate accounts have access to only the resources they need and in the timeframe needed is a principle of the Zero Trust methodology that has grown in adoption as companies continue to adopt and shift services into cloud environments. Zero Trust requires that all identities be authenticated and authorized before gaining least-privilege access to resources, and each of the three major cloud providers offers functionality...

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