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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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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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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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