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Practical Cloud Security

A Guide for Secure Design and Deployment

Chris Dotson · 2023 · 2nd ed.

Why it earns its place

Cloud security organised by asset and by decision rather than by vendor product, which is why it survives a change of cloud provider. Written by a practising security architect, so the threat models are the ones that actually show up rather than the ones that make good conference talks.

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AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar

AWS-specific and narrower, but free and the closest thing to a checkable standard for cloud security design.

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Topics

  • cloud-security
  • iam
  • compliance
  • encryption
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