Threat Hunting in the Cloud

Foreword

 

The book you're about to read fills a much-needed gap in cloud cybersecurity. A little over two years ago, a couple of cybersecurity experts stopped to grab a coffee after a long day at a technical conference in Las Vegas. As the conversation progressed, the friends realized one of the topics they most wanted to learn more about wasn't being addressed by any of the conference sessions: cross-cloud threat hunting.

How did they know it was a topic that needed to be covered? Because each of them had experienced the need first hand. Chris Peiris built an early cyber fusion center for Microsoft and joined Avanade to build out their fusion center with side-by-side Azure and AWS capability. Based in Australia, Chris now works with the AU DoD and has seen how multi-cloud security has gone from a business requirement to a regulatory one with new legislation in Australia that demands a multi-cloud approach to prevent vendor lock-in. As the Global Director, Strategy & Business Development for Security at Microsoft, Binil Pillai works with corporate executives and understands that true organizational security means being able to hunt for vulnerabilities and exposures across multiple different cloud providers. His experience with threat-hunting product development also contributed to build the concept of this book. As an award-winning CISO and Microsoft's Chief Cybersecurity ...