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Enterprise Cloud Security and Governance

You're reading from Enterprise Cloud Security and Governance Efficiently set data protection and privacy principles

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788299558

Length 410 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

Cloud Security

Author (1):

Vora

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. The Fundamentals of Cloud Security

2. Defense in Depth Approach FREE CHAPTER

3. Designing Defensive Network Infrastructure

4. Server Hardening

5. Cryptography Network Security

6. Automation in Security

7. Vulnerability, Pentest, and Patch Management

8. Security Logging and Monitoring

9. First Responder

10. Best Practices

Pluggable authentication modules

Pluggable authentication modules (PAM) is one of the ancient corners that most system administrators don't get into. However, PAM modules play a very important role in the background.

In this section, we will understand in detail about PAM as well as implement PAM modules to achieve certain use cases related to security.

Let's understand PAM with the following use cases of Team Screen application and file sharing application in the following sections.

Team Screen application

There is an application named Team Screen that allows users to access Linux workstations via GUI. In order to do so, the application requires an authentication-related functionality. Thus, any user who wants to access the application must authenticate itself, typically, via username and password.

So, now, the developers of the Team Screen application need to first write a stable code for the application itself, and then they have to write the entire authentication related code.

So, the developers...

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Authors (1)

Vora

Vora

Zeal Vora works as a DevSecOps Engineer primarily in the area of Defensive Security. He spends his days protecting and implementing security controls to help mitigate attacks both on the Cloud and servers. He is actively involved in security consultation, helping various startups which have been breached to overcome the breach and start again with a secure infrastructure.

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