Kumar S. Practical Cloud Security Handbook. Secure cloud deployments...2025 torrent

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As organizations rapidly migrate to cloud environments, robust cloud security is no longer optional—it is paramount. The Practical Cloud Security Handbook is your essential guide to navigating this complex landscape, empowering you to secure digital assets effectively and confidently in the era of distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
This handbook systematically guides you from cloud security fundamentals, including the shared responsibility model, through various cloud-native architectural patterns and top cloud workloads like IAM, VPC, and containerization. You will gain a deep understanding of core security concepts, such as encryption and protocols, and then explore the practical, multi-cloud configurations for securing storage, network services, and identity access management across AWS, Azure, IBM, and GCP. The book progresses to vital operational security aspects like monitoring, encryption application, and robust testing. It further explores modern approaches like security as code, offering best practices for both cloud-native and non-cloud-native implementations, integrates DevSecOps principles, and concludes with crucial compliance and regulatory considerations.
Upon completing this handbook, you will possess a comprehensive, hands-on understanding of cloud security, enabling you to design, implement, and maintain secure cloud environments and confidently address today's complex cybersecurity challenges.
Terraform and Ansible are pivotal tools in implementing Infrastructure as code (IaC). They are discussed as follows:
• Terraform: An open-source tool created by HashiCorp, Terraform enables users to define and provision a datacenter infrastructure using a high-level configuration language. It is known for its ability to manage both cloud and on-premises resources and supports multiple cloud service providers. Terraform works by creating an execution plan to determine what actions are necessary to achieve the desired state specified in the configuration files, and then it executes the plan to build the described infrastructure.
• Ansible: Developed by Red Hat, Ansible is an open-source tool for software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment. Unlike Terraform, Ansible focuses more on the automation of the software deployment and configuration side of things. It uses YAML for its playbook configurations, making it highly readable and easy to use. Ansible works by connecting to nodes and pushing out small programs called Ansible modules to them. These modules are executed, and then they report back to the Ansible server.
Both tools are integral in modern DevOps practices, with Terraform excelling in infrastructure provisioning and Ansible in automating software configuration and deployment.
Preface
Introduction to Cloud Security
Cloud-native Architectures
Understanding Top Workloads in the Cloud
Concepts of Security
Securing Storage Services
Securing Network Services
Identity and Access Management
Monitoring, Applying Encryption, and Preparation/Testing
Security as Code
Best Practices for Cloud-native Implementations
Best Practices for Non-cloud-native Implementations
DevSecOps
Compliance and Regulatory Considerations