With their rapidly changing architecture and API-driven automation, cloud platforms come with unique security challenges and opportunities. This hands-on book guides you through security best practices for multivendor cloud environments, whether your company plans to move legacy on-premises projects to the cloud or build a new infrastructure from the ground up.

Developers, IT architects, and security professionals will learn cloud-specific techniques for securing popular cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and IBM Cloud. Chris Dotson—an IBM senior technical staff member—shows you how to establish data asset management, identity and access management, vulnerability management, network security, and incident response in your cloud environment.

Download the eBook to Learn:

• Principles and guidelines for least privileged access, risk management, and the cloud shared responsibility model
• How to secure a simple web application leveraging a combination of traditional security measures with cloud-native solutions.
• Using privileged user access to help with monitoring and securing cloud environments.
• Detecting, responding to, and recovering from security incidents using various tools and processes.

Note: This is an Excerpt of Practical Cloud Security containing Chapters 1, 6, and 7.