Troubleshooting Security Issues

In this section, you will learn about troubleshooting security-related issues in the cloud. I will discuss the most common problems you will find as a cloud customer and give you insight into how to begin troubleshooting them.

Keep in mind that the cloud provider will be responsible for the security of the underlying infrastructure, and you will take responsibility for the “top of the stack.” This will include the security posture of your cloud deployments. You will learn about security maintenance in troubleshooting as it relates to user accounts, sign-on issues, authentication, authorization, device hardening, and digital certificates.

Account Privilege Escalation

Privilege escalation can be defined as a user receiving account privileges that they are not allowed to possess. A storage administrator in your cloud deployment usually would not be granted full control over the firewalls, for example. If they were able to gain firewall configuration...