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Cloud Security - Quick Reference

Kim Carter

Are you looking to achieve a good understanding of your responsibilities as well as your CSPs responsibilities to make sure your security stature in the Cloud is where you need it to be? Do you need the technical direction required to create your secure Cloud environment? You can think of this book as your technical Cloud consultant.

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In this book we walk through threat modelling your Cloud environment. We break down and provide solid understanding of the shared responsibility model, that is: What are the CSPs responsibilities and what are your responsibilities as a consumer of the services that your chosen CSP offers. We provide a set of questions and possible answers to help you evaluate the most suitable CSP for your needs.

We discus the pros and cons of the Cloud vs In-house clouds, along with techniques for improving your understanding and implementation of the principle of least privilege in the Cloud.

The book also covers:

  • Techniques and tools for storing and accessing secrets in the Cloud securely
  • Risks and countermeasures of serverless offerings
  • Infrastructure and configuration management techniques and tools
  • An interview with Scott Piper (AWS security specialist)
  • Many other tips, tricks and tools

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Homepage: https://binarymist.io/publication/cloud-security/

Authors Other Books: https://binarymist.io/publication/kims-selected-publications/

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Kim Carter

Technologist / Engineer, Information Security Professional, Entrepreneur, creator of PurpleTeam, and the founder of BinaryMist Ltd. OWASP NZ Chapter Leader. Certified Scrum Master. Facilitator, mentor and motivator of cross functional, self managing teams. With a solid 20 years of commercial industry experience across many domains, Kim enjoys teaching others how to apply information security to their Agile processes, bringing the security focus up front where it's the cheapest to implement, increasing profit and reducing costs. Organiser of two information security conferences (OWASP NZ Day and Christchurch Hacker Con), International trainer, speaker, and Software Engineering Radio podcast host, focusing on:

  1. Software and network architecture
  2. Web development and engineering
  3. Information security

Kim is also a regular blog poster at binarymist.io/blog. Kim loves designing and creating robust software and networks, breaking software and networks, then fixing them and helping organisations increase productivity.

Kim's Other Books: binarymist.io/publication/kims-selected-publications/

Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

  1. Description
  2. Purpose
  3. Reason

Introduction

1. Asset Identification

  1. Productivity
  2. Competitive Advantage
  3. Control
  4. Data

2. Identify Risks

  1. Shared Responsibility Model
  2. CSP Responsibility
  3. CSP Customer Responsibility
  4. CSP Evaluation
  5. Cloud Service Provider vs In-house
  6. Skills
  7. EULA
  8. Giving up Secrets
  9. Location of Data
  10. Vendor lock-in
  11. Possible Single Points of Failure
  12. Review Other Chapters
  13. People
  14. Application Security
  15. Network Security
  16. Violations of Least Privilege
  17. Machine Instance Single User Root
  18. CSP Account Single User Root
  19. Storage of Secrets
  20. Private Key Abuse
  21. SSH
  22. TLS
  23. Credentials and Other Secrets
  24. Entered by People (manually)
  25. Entered by Software (automatically)
  26. Serverless
  27. Third Party Services
  28. Perimeterless
  29. Functions
  30. DoS of Lambda Functions
  31. Infrastructure and Configuration Management
  32. AWS
  33. Password-less sudo

3. Countermeasures

  1. Shared Responsibility Model
  2. CSP Responsibility
  3. CSP Customer Responsibility
  4. CSP Evaluation
  5. Cloud Service Provider vs In-house
  6. Skills
  7. EULA
  8. Giving up Secrets
  9. Location of Data
  10. Vendor lock-in
  11. Possible Single Points of Failure
  12. Review Other Chapters
  13. People
  14. Application Security
  15. Network Security
  16. Violations of Least Privilege
  17. Machine Instance Single User Root
  18. CSP Account Single User Root
  19. Storage of Secrets
  20. Private Key Abuse
  21. SSH
  22. TLS
  23. Credentials and Other Secrets
  24. Entered by People (manually)
  25. Entered by Software (automatically)
  26. Serverless
  27. Third Party Services
  28. Perimeterless
  29. Functions
  30. DoS of Lambda Functions
  31. Centralised logging of AWS Lambda Functions
  32. Frameworks
  33. Infrastructure and Configuration Management
  34. AWS
  35. Password-less sudo
  36. Additional Tooling

4. Risks that Solution Causes

  1. Shared Responsibility Model
  2. CSP Evaluation
  3. Cloud Service Provider vs In-house
  4. People
  5. Application Security
  6. Network Security
  7. Violations of Least Privilege
  8. Storage of Secrets
  9. Private Key Abuse
  10. SSH
  11. TLS
  12. Credentials and Other Secrets
  13. Entered by People (manually)
  14. Entered by Software (automatically)
  15. Serverless
  16. Functions
  17. DoS of Lambda Functions
  18. Frameworks
  19. Infrastructure and Configuration Management
  20. AWS
  21. Additional Tooling

5. Costs and Trade-offs

  1. Shared Responsibility Model
  2. CSP Evaluation
  3. Cloud Service Provider vs In-house
  4. People
  5. Application Security
  6. Network Security
  7. Violations of Least Privilege
  8. Storage of Secrets
  9. Private Key Abuse
  10. SSH
  11. TLS
  12. Credentials and Other Secrets
  13. Entered by People (manually)
  14. Entered by Software (automatically)
  15. Serverless
  16. Functions
  17. DoS of Lambda Functions
  18. Frameworks
  19. Infrastructure and Configuration Management
  20. AWS
  21. Additional Tooling

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