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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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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

Basic cloud auditing tools within AWS

In the sections that follow, as a prerequisite, you may require a minimum level of view or read access to obtain the test evidence independently. Depending upon your specific organization’s configuration and any additional customizations, you may require additional access rights or group memberships to directly access specific content, or you may be required to work with an administrative point of contact for your organization as you observe them pulling control evidence. For reference, any screenshots in the following sections are based on a user with administrative privileges to the cloud environment. In addition, some of the tools may need to be enabled by the cloud customer, if they have not yet been.

We will begin with the basic cloud auditing tools within the AWS platform.

Amazon CloudWatch

The first tool an IT auditor can leverage in AWS is Amazon CloudWatch. Amazon CloudWatch is an AWS native monitoring and management...

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