Cloud Auditing Best Practices

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Network, Infrastructure, and Security Controls

In cloud networks, access is controlled primarily through virtual networks and their associated networking resources. Cloud systems use virtual networks to enable communication between components inside a cloud. A virtual network is a networking system that emulates a physical network by combining the hardware and software network resources into a single entity. A virtual network contains network resources and capabilities including firewalls, virtual routers, load balancers, and network management.

In the cloud, virtual networks are managed via Software-Defined Networking (SDN). SDN is a category of technologies designed to allow virtualized networking functions that can be managed through software. ...