Chapter 7: Applying Encryption in Cloud Services
In Chapter 2, Securing Compute Services, to Chapter 6, Monitoring and Auditing Your Cloud Environments, we covered the fundamental building blocks of cloud services (from compute, storage, and networking services to Identity and Access Management (IAM) services, to auditing, threat management, and incident response).
This chapter will cover various concepts regarding encryption – including the differences between symmetric and asymmetric encryption, Key Management Services (KMSes), secrets management services, and using encryption in transit and at rest in cloud environments.
Since encryption is a common security best practice that is used to allow data confidentiality, and since many cloud services ...
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