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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
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 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Financial Resource and Change Management Controls

Due to the dynamic and automated capabilities that enable the quick procurement, deployment, and modification of cloud services, understanding how to review and assess the configuration of financial and change management controls in cloud systems is an essential skill for auditing these environments.

In this chapter, we’ll cover the following main topics:

  • Policies for resource management
  • Policies for change management
  • Change management integration and workflows
  • Reviewing change history
  • Financial billing and cost controls
  • Financial resource ownership

By the end of this chapter, we will be able to identify policies and tags and know some options for configuring or applying these across the three cloud providers. We’ll also gain insight into how tags impact resource management and learn why tags might be used. We’ll learn how native DevSecOps tools may be integrated for change...

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