Cloud Attack Vectors : Building Effective Cyber-Defense Strategies to Protect Cloud Resources / by Morey J. Haber, Brian Chappell, Christopher Hills.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haber, Morey J., author.

Chappell, J. B. (John Brian), author.

Hills, Christopher (Security strategist), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cloud computing.

Cloud computing--Security measures.

Cyberterrorism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (492 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed. 2022.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : Apress : Imprint: Apress, 2022.

Summary:

Cyberattacks continue to increase in volume and sophistication, targeting everything owned, managed, and serviced from the cloud. Today, there is widespread consensus—it is not a matter of if, but rather when an organization will be breached. Threat actors typically target the path of least resistance. With the accelerating adoption of cloud technologies and remote work, the path of least resistance is shifting in substantive ways. In recent years, attackers have realigned their efforts, focusing on remaining undetected, monetization after exploitation, and publicly shaming organizations after a breach. New, innovative, and useful products continue to emerge and offer some cloud protection, but they also have distinct limitations. No single, standalone solution or strategy can effectively protect against all cloud attack vectors or identify all malicious activity. The simple fact is that the cloud is based on a company’s assets being offered as services. As a result, the best security any organization can achieve is to establish controls and procedures in conjunction with services that are licensed in the cloud. Cloud Attack Vectors details the risks associated with cloud deployments, the techniques threat actors leverage, the empirically-tested defensive measures organizations should adopt, and shows how to improve detection of malicious activity. What You’ll Learn Know the key definitions pertaining to cloud technologies, threats, and cybersecurity solutions Understand how entitlements, permissions, rights, identities, accounts, credentials, and exploits can be leveraged to breach a cloud environment Implement defensive and monitoring strategies to mitigate cloud threats, including those unique to cloud and hybrid cloud environments Develop a comprehensive model for documenting risk, compliance, and reporting based on your cloud implementation.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Cloud Computing

Chapter 3. Cloud Service Proviers

Chapter 4. Cloud Definitions

Chapter 5. Asset Manager

Chapter 6. Attack Vectors

Chapter 7. Mitigation Strategies

Chapter 8. Regulatory Compliance

Chapter 9. Architectures

Chapter 10. Swarm Intelligence

Chapter 11. Chaos Engineering

Chapter 12: Imposter Syndrome

Chapter 13: Selecting a Cloud Service Provider

Chapter 14: Security Recommendations for your Cloud Environment

Chapter 15: Conclusion

Appendix A

Appendix B.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781484282366

1484282361

OCLC:

1337493660