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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

Change history

As an auditor, one method that may be used to correlate processes and procedures that mitigate risk is to review activity logs. In cloud environments, these logs may be made up of separate sign-in and event logs that are capturing change history and actions performed by user accounts, service accounts, or workload identities.

In each of the cloud environments, you will find multiple options for tracking the activity that’s occurred. The amount of this activity that is tracked, where it is tracked, and for how long this information is made directly available will change based on licensing, cloud system configuration, and cloud provider. In some cases, supplementary data storage tools or platforms may need to be used to ensure longer retention that meets compliance requirements. As an IT auditor, you should also note that not all items are logged by default. In some cases, an organization may need to manually enable logging or the settings to log certain activities...

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