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Cloud Auditing Best Practices

Cloud Auditing Best Practices is a complete guide to assessing security and IT controls in the big three cloud environments: Azure, AWS, and GCP. Once you’ve read this book, you’ll be able to build and execute an IT audit plan that will effectively assess cloud security and IT controls adherence to compliance objectives with ease.

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

8h56m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book 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.

Book content

chapters 8h56m total length

Cloud Architecture and Navigation

Effective Techniques for Preparing to Audit Cloud Environments

Identity and Access Management Controls

Network, Infrastructure, and Security Controls

Financial Resource and Change Management Controls

Tips and Techniques for Advanced Auditing

Tools for Monitoring and Assessing

Walk-Through – Assessing IAM Controls

Walk-Through – Assessing Policy Settings and Resource Controls

Walk-Through – Assessing Change Management, Logging, and Monitoring Policies

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