Summary
Security starts with IAM: making sure that we have control over who's accessing our environments and what they are allowed to do in systems. In this chapter, we have learned what identities are and that we need a central identity store. From this identity store, we have to federate between the different cloud solutions that an enterprise has. We have learned how we can set up federation and how IDaaS can be a good solution for this.
We've studied concepts of authorization and authentication in the major cloud platforms. An important concept is least privilege. After this chapter, you should be able to make a distinction between standard accounts and privileged accounts. Lastly, we have learned what benefits PAM can have in securing access to our clouds.
The reason to have our cloud environments maximally secured is to protect our data. We have studied identities, access management, and security policies to protect our infrastructure. In the next chapter, we...
