Identity-Native Infrastructure Access Management

Table of contents

1. Preface
   1. Who Should Read This Book
   2. Goals of the Book
   3. Navigating This Book
   4. Conventions Used in This Book
   5. O’Reilly Online Learning
   6. How to Contact Us
   7. Acknowledgments
2. 1. Introduction: The Pillars of Access
   1. Most Attacks Are the Same
   2. Access
      1. Secure Connectivity
      2. Authentication
      3. Authorization
      4. Audit
   3. Security Versus Convenience
   4. Scaling Hardware, Software, and Peopleware
   5. Identity-Native Infrastructure Access
3. 2. Identity
   1. Identity and Access Management
   2. Identity and Credentials
      1. Traditional Approaches to Access
      2. Identity-Based Credentials
   3. Establishing Trust in Identity
   4. Identities in Infrastructure
   5. Long-Lived Identities
   6. Ephemeral Identities
   7. Identity-Native Access
      1. Identity Storage
      2. Identity Attestation
      3. Reducing the Number of Secrets to One
   8. A Path to Identity-Native Infrastructure Access
      1. Eliminate Access Silos
      2. Move to Certificates for Identity Proofing
      3. Extend Identity-Native Access to Service Accounts
4. 3. Secure Connectivity
   1. Cryptography
      1. One-Way Functions and Hashing
      2. Symmetric Encryption
      3. Asymmetric Encryption
      4. Certificates as Public Keys
   2. The Untrusted Network
      1. Encrypted and Authenticated Connectivity
      2. Moving Up in the Networking Stack
      3. Perimeterless Networking for North-South Traffic
      4. Microsegmentation for East-West Traffic
      5. Unifying the Infrastructure Connectivity Layer
   3. Secure Connectivity and Zero Trust
5. 4. Authentication
   1. Evaluating Authentication Methods
      1. Robustness
      2. Ubiquity
      3. Scalability
      4. Secret-Based Authentication
      5. Public Key Authentication
      6. Certificate-Based Authentication
   2. Multifactor Authentication
   3. Single Sign-On
      1. How SSO Works
      2. Beyond Traditional SSO
   4. Identity-Native Authentication
      1. Identity Proofing
      2. Device Attestation
      3. WebAuthn
      4. Authenticating Machines
      5. Preserving Identity Postauthentication
6. 5. Authorization
   1. Infrastructure Protects Data
   2. Types of Authorization
      1. Discretionary Access Control
      2. Mandatory Access Control
      3. The Bell–LaPadula Model
      4. Multics
      5. Mandatory Access Control in Linux
      6. Nondiscretionary Access Control
   3. Privilege Management
      1. Principle of Least Privilege
      2. Zero Standing Privilege
      3. Just-in-Time Access
      4. Dual Authorization
   4. Challenges in Authorization
      1. Access Silos
      2. Privilege Classification
      3. Authorization for Machines
      4. Complexity and Granularity
   5. Identity and Zero Trust
      1. Identity First
      2. Single Source of Policy Truth
      3. Context-Driven Access
      4. Identity-Aware Proxy
7. 6. Auditing
   1. Types of Logs
      1. Audit Logs
      2. Session Recordings
   2. Logging at Different Layers
      1. Host Logging
      2. Network Monitoring
      3. Log Aggregation
   3. Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
   4. Log Schemas
   5. Storage Trade-Offs and Techniques
   6. Evolution of the Cloud Data Warehouse
   7. Log Analysis Techniques
      1. Log Analysis Example: Modern Ransomware Attack
   8. Auditing and Logging in an Identity-Native System
8. 7. Scaling Access: An Example Using Teleport
   1. Access at Scale
   2. Identity-Native Access Checklist
   3. Necessary Components
   4. The Teleport Infrastructure Access Platform
      1. The Cluster
      2. How Teleport Works
      3. Managing Users
      4. Managing Client Devices
      5. Managing Permissions
      6. Managing Audit
      7. Zero Trust Configuration
   5. Living the Principles of Identity-Native Access
9. 8. A Call to Action
   1. Security and Convenience at Scale
   2. The Future of Trust
   3. Infrastructure as One Big Machine
   4. The Future of Security Threats
   5. Closing Words
10. Index
11. About the Authors