Identity-Native Infrastructure Access Management

Preface

The challenge of securing infrastructure is no secret. As an organization scales and more people need access, a lush forest of policies and tools grows organically, resulting in both inconvenience and vulnerability across the entire infrastructure.

This is very bad.

This book provides theory and real-world advice to help organizations step up to the new challenge of securing infrastructure: no secrets! The following chapters consider all aspects of identity-based access management, addressing topics from identity proofing to auditing. By bringing identity-based, unified policy to both humans and machines, this book aims to solve vulnerability and inconvenience in one stroke.

After all, the point of infrastructure access is to let the right people in so they can work together easily.

Who Should Read This Book

As a company grows, infrastructure access becomes more important and more difficult. Secret-based perimeter defenses don’t scale. This book is for anyone facing the challenges of defending an ever-growing infrastructure, whether on-premises, in the cloud, or both. The book is accessible to a reader with a modicum of technical skill and a passing familiarity with IT, networking, and the Linux command line.

Whether you’re an executive, an IT policymaker, or a DevOps engineer, if you have responsibility for helping secure heterogeneous computing infrastructure, this book is for you.

Goals of the Book

The world is changing. Infrastructure will continue to evolve. New ...