Chapter 3
Security in the Cloud
THE FOLLOWING COMPTIA CLOUD+ EXAM OBJECTIVES ARE COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:
2.1 Given a scenario, apply security configurations and compliance controls to meet given cloud infrastructure requirements.
- Company security policies
- Apply security standards for the selected platform
- Compliance and audit requirements governing the environment
- Laws and regulations as they apply to the data
- Encryption technologies
- IPSec
- SSL/TLS
- Other ciphers
- Key and certificate management
- PKI
- Tunneling protocols
- L2TP
- PPTP
- GRE
- Implement automation and orchestration processes as applicable
- Appropriate configuration for the applicable platform as it applies to compute
- Disabling unneeded ports and services
- Account management policies
- Host-based/software firewalls
- Antivirus/anti-malware software
- Patching
- Deactivating default accounts
- 2.2 Given a scenario, apply the appropriate ACL to the target objects to meet access requirements according to a security...
