Securing the Cloud

Chapter 6. Securing the Cloud: Key Strategies and Best Practices

Information in this Chapter

•Overall Strategy: Effectively Managing Risk

•Overview of Security Controls

•The Limits of Security Controls

•Best Practices

•Security Monitoring

Implementing effective security monitoring and vulnerability detection is a key strategy in cloud computing. Although security risks can be addressed in multiple ways, without a sound process and a considered strategy, efforts to accomplish this goal are often ineffective. This chapter details a forward-looking approach to security monitoring for a cloud implementation and presents best practices and key strategies for implementing, maintaining, and ensuring cloud security. Some of these practices are relevant to cloud ...