Introduction to Cloud Security
This book, Cloud Security Handbook, is meant for various audiences. You could be taking your first steps working with cloud services, or you could be coming from an IT perspective and want to know about various computing and storage services and how to configure them securely. You might be working in information security and want to know the various authentication, encryption, and audit services and how to configure them securely, or you might be working with architecture and want to know how to design large-scale environments in the cloud in a secure way.
Reading this book will allow you to make the most of cloud services while focusing on security aspects. Before discussing cloud services in more detail, let me share my opinion regarding cloud services.
The world of IT is evolving. For decades, organizations used to purchase physical hardware, install operating systems, and deploy software. This routine required a lot of ongoing maintenance (such...