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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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GCP

Lastly, we will look at cloud auditing tools that can be leveraged within GCP.

Google Cloud Monitoring

IT auditors can leverage Google Cloud Monitoring to gain real-time visibility into GCP. We can get to Cloud Monitoring by simply searching for it on the Google Cloud console, as shown in Figure 7.23:

Figure 7.23 – Google Cloud Monitoring Overview

Figure 7.23 – Google Cloud Monitoring Overview

A useful feature for an IT auditor is Dashboards. This provides us with dashboards for Disks, Firewalls, Infrastructure Summary, and VM Instances:

Figure 7.24 – Dashboards Overview

Figure 7.24 – Dashboards Overview

One valuable dashboard to review is Firewalls. Let us go to the Firewalls dashboard, as seen in Figure 7.25:

Figure 7.25 – The Firewalls dashboard

Figure 7.25 – The Firewalls dashboard

If we dig deeper, we note that there is an ingress/inbound rule that allows traffic from the internet (0.0.0.0/0). This particular rule should pique an IT auditor’s interest as port 22 (SSH...

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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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