Cloud Security Handbook

Chapter 5: Effective Strategies to Implement IAM Solutions

From Chapter 2, Securing Compute Services, to Chapter 4, Securing Network Services, we covered the fundamental building blocks of cloud services (from compute and storage to networking services).

However, we cannot talk about cloud services without also discussing identity management.

In this chapter, we will cover various concepts of identity management – from traditional directory services (based on the Kerberos protocol in the Microsoft environment, LDAP-based directory services, popular in non-Microsoft environments, and even Linux-based directory services) to modern directory services (based on the SAML or OAuth protocols) – and, finally, we will understand how to secure authentication ...