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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 FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Cloud Architecture and Navigation 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

User authentication and authorization

At the core of IAM is delivering a life-cycle process for the authentication and authorization of identities. In the past, the focus may have been on identities specifically tied to a human user. However, as companies rely more on automations, API integrations, device-to-device integrations, and other dynamic digital services, attention should be given to proper authentication and authorization of non-human identities as well. These non-human identities include things such as devices, service accounts, and workload identities, which should be considered as part of the audit, and in Chapter 1, Cloud Architecture and Navigation, we discussed the importance of understanding the end-to-end IT infrastructure and landscape prior to starting an audit, which should include these items.

In the case of user authentication and authorization, it’s important to understand the source of identities and where those are managed. Cloud providers offer...

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