Summary
In this chapter, we reviewed some key common elements to know about while preparing to perform an effective audit within a cloud environment. Our goal was to ensure you have the frameworks, techniques, and tools at your disposal to build confidence in your enterprise cloud auditing. Knowing and understanding these key elements prepares you for success, provides you with information to be proficient and efficient in your evidence gathering, and potentially reduces the time it takes to complete an audit program. We learned about the preparation steps and frameworks to perform a cloud audit, the established tools that are either natively available or open-source and will help you efficiently collect testing evidence, and the opportunities that exist to automate compliance enforcement and assessment.
The information we discussed in this chapter has hopefully equipped you so that you can begin establishing an audit program playbook using widely available resources. Now that we...
