Cloud Auditing Best Practices: Perform Security and IT Audits across AWS, Azure, and GCP by building effective cloud auditing plans (Paperback)

Ensure compliance across the top cloud players by diving into AWS, Azure, and GCP cloud auditing to minimize security risks

Key Features

- Leverage best practices and emerging technologies to effectively audit a cloud environment
- Get better at auditing and unlock career opportunities in cloud audits and compliance
- Explore multiple assessments of various features in a cloud environment to see how it's done

Book Description

As more and more companies are moving to cloud and multi-cloud environments, being able to assess the compliance of these environments properly is becoming more important. But in this fast-moving domain, getting the most up-to-date information is a challenge―so where do you turn?

Cloud Auditing Best Practices has all the information you'll need. With an explanation of the fundamental concepts and hands-on walk-throughs of the three big cloud players, this book will get you up to speed with cloud auditing before you know it.

After a quick introduction to cloud architecture and an understanding of the importance of performing cloud control assessments, you'll quickly get to grips with navigating AWS, Azure, and GCP cloud environments. As you explore the vital role an IT auditor plays in any company's network, you'll learn how to successfully build cloud IT auditing programs, including using standard tools such as Terraform, Azure Automation, AWS Policy Sentry, and many more.

You'll also get plenty of tips and tricks for preparing an effective and advanced audit and understanding how to monitor and assess cloud environments using standard tools.

By the end of this book, you will be able to confidently apply and assess security controls for AWS, Azure, and GCP, allowing you to independently and effectively confirm compliance in the cloud.

What you will learn

- Understand the cloud shared responsibility and role of an IT auditor
- Explore change management and integrate it with DevSecOps processes
- Understand the value of performing cloud control assessments
- Learn tips and tricks to perform an advanced and effective auditing program
- Enhance visibility by monitoring and assessing cloud environments
- Examine IAM, network, infrastructure, and logging controls
- Use policy and compliance automation with tools such as Terraform

Who this book is for

This book is for IT auditors looking to learn more about assessing cloud environments for compliance, as well as those looking for practical tips on how to audit them and what security controls are available to map to IT general computing controls. Other IT professionals whose job includes assessing compliance, such as DevSecOps teams, identity, and access management analysts, cloud engineers, and cloud security architects, will also find plenty of useful information in this book. Before you get started, you'll need a basic understanding of IT systems and a solid grasp of cybersecurity basics.

確保在AWS、Azure和GCP的雲端審計中遵守規定，以減少安全風險。

主要特點：

- 利用最佳實踐和新興技術有效地審計雲端環境
- 在審計方面取得更好的能力，並開啟在雲端審計和合規方面的職業機會
- 探索雲端環境中各種功能的多個評估，了解如何執行

書籍描述：

隨著越來越多的公司轉向雲端和多雲環境，能夠正確評估這些環境的合規性變得更加重要。但在這個快速發展的領域中，獲取最新信息是一個挑戰 - 那麼你該去哪裡尋找？

《雲端審計最佳實踐》提供了您所需的所有信息。通過解釋基本概念並進行三大雲端服務提供商的實際操作，本書將使您迅速掌握雲端審計的知識。

在快速介紹雲端架構並了解執行雲端控制評估的重要性之後，您將迅速熟悉AWS、Azure和GCP的雲端環境。在探索IT審計師在任何公司網絡中扮演的重要角色時，您將學習如何成功建立雲端IT審計計劃，包括使用Terraform、Azure Automation、AWS Policy Sentry等標準工具。

您還將獲得許多準備有效和高級審計的技巧，並了解如何使用標準工具監控和評估雲端環境。

通過閱讀本書，您將能夠自信地應用和評估AWS、Azure和GCP的安全控制，從而能夠獨立且有效地確認雲端合規性。

您將學到什麼：

- 了解雲端共享責任和IT審計師的角色
- 探索變更管理並將其與DevSecOps流程整合
- 了解執行雲端控制評估的價值
- 學習執行高級和有效審計計劃的技巧
- 通過監控和評估雲端環境來增強可見性
- 檢查IAM、網絡、基礎設施和日誌控制
- 使用Terraform等工具進行策略和合規自動化

本書適合對評估雲端環境合規性有興趣的IT審計師，以及對如何審計雲端環境以及可用於IT一般計算控制的安全控制有實際技巧的人。其他工作包括評估合規性的IT專業人員，如DevSecOps團隊、身份和訪問管理分析師、雲端工程師和雲端安全架構師，也可以在本書中找到許多有用的信息。在開始之前，您需要對IT系統有基本的了解，並對基本的網絡安全有牢固的掌握。

1. Cloud Architecture and Navigation
2. Effective Techniques for Preparing to Audit Cloud Environment
3. Identity and Access Management Controls
4. Network, Infrastructure, and Security Controls
5. Financial Resource and Change Management Controls
6. Tips and Techniques for Advanced Auditing
7. Tools for Monitoring and Assessing
8. Walk-Through – Assessing IAM Controls
9. Walk-Through – Assessing Policy Settings and Resource Controls
10. Walk-Through – Assessing Change Management, Logging, and Monitoring Policies

1. 雲架構和導航
2. 準備審計雲環境的有效技巧
3. 身份和訪問管理控制
4. 網絡、基礎設施和安全控制
5. 財務資源和變更管理控制
6. 進階審計的技巧和提示
7. 監控和評估工具
8. 審核IAM控制的實例
9. 審核策略設置和資源控制的實例
10. 審核變更管理、日誌和監控策略的實例