Empirical Cloud Security: Practical Intelligence to Evaluate Risks and Attacks

This book is designed for security and risk assessment professionals, DevOpsengineers, penetration testers, cloud security engineers, and cloud softwaredevelopers who are interested in learning practical approaches to cloud security. It covers practical strategies for assessing the security and privacy of your cloud infrastructure and applications and shows how to make your cloud infrastructure secure to combat threats, attacks, and prevent data breaches. The chapters are designed with a granular framework, starting with the security concepts, followed by hand-on assessment techniques based on real-world studies, and concluding with recommendations including best practices.

FEATURES:

• Includes practical strategies forassessing the security and privacy of your cloud infrastructure andapplications
• Coverstopics such as cloud architecture and security fundamentals, database andstorage security, data privacy, security and risk assessments, controls relatedto continuous monitoring, and more
• Presents several case studies revealing how threat actors abuse and exploit cloudenvironments to spread malware