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Hybrid Cloud Security Patterns

Hybrid Cloud Security Patterns

By : Sreekanth Iyer
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Hybrid Cloud Security Patterns

Hybrid Cloud Security Patterns

4.8 (4)
By: Sreekanth Iyer

Overview of this book

Security is a primary concern for enterprises going through digital transformation and accelerating their journey to multi-cloud environments. This book recommends a simple pattern-based approach to architecting, designing and implementing security for workloads deployed on AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and IBM Cloud. The book discusses enterprise modernization trends and related security opportunities and challenges. You’ll understand how to implement identity and access management for your cloud resources and applications. Later chapters discuss patterns to protect cloud infrastructure (compute, storage and network) and provide protection for data at rest, in transit and in use. You’ll also learn how to shift left and include security in the early stages of application development to adopt DevSecOps. The book also deep dives into threat monitoring, configuration and vulnerability management, and automated incident response. Finally, you’ll discover patterns to implement security posture management backed with intelligence and automated protection to stay ahead of threats. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned all the hybrid cloud security patterns and be able to use them to create zero trust architecture that provides continuous security and compliance for your cloud workloads.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Part 1: Introduction to Cloud Security
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Chapter 2: Understanding Shared Responsibility Model for Cloud Security
4
Part 2: Identity and Access Management Patterns
7
Part 3: Infrastructure Security Patterns
10
Part 4: Data and Application Security Patterns
13
Part 5: Cloud Security Posture Management and Zero Trust Architecture
14
Chapter 9: Managing the Security Posture for Your Cloud Deployments
15
Chapter 10: Building Zero Trust Architecture with Hybrid Cloud Security Patterns

Protecting VMs

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Problem

Understanding how to secure VMs.

Context

With virtualization, compute resources are made available in the cloud in the form of VMs. VMs are like a server environment created within a computer. They have a guest operating system. The management plane of the hypervisor enables us to create and run multiple VMs. All the threats that are relevant for bare-metal servers are also applicable to VMs.

You can see a visual representation of this in the following diagram:

Figure 5.7 – VMs

Figure 5.7 – VMs

VMs are subjected to the following attacks, in addition to those that are applicable to bare-metal servers as well:

  • A VM can get infected with malware or operating system rootkits at runtime. This is malicious software that gives unauthorized access to a computer. It is hard to detect and can conceal its presence within an infected system. Hackers use rootkit malware to remotely access the VM and manipulate...

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