Cloud Auditing Best Practices

Ensure compliance across the top cloud players by diving into AWS, Azure, and GCP cloud auditing to minimize security risks

Key Features

• Leverage best practices and emerging technologies to effectively audit a cloud environment
• Get better at auditing and unlock career opportunities in cloud audits and compliance
• Explore multiple assessments of various features in a cloud environment to see how it's done

Book Description

What you will learn

• Understand the cloud shared responsibility and role of an IT auditor
• Explore change management and integrate it with DevSecOps processes
• Understand the value of performing cloud control assessments
• Learn tips and tricks to perform an advanced and effective auditing program
• Enhance visibility by monitoring and assessing cloud environments
• Examine IAM, network, infrastructure, and logging controls
• Use policy and compliance automation with tools such as Terraform

Who this book is for

This book is for IT auditors looking to learn more about assessing cloud environments for compliance, as well as those looking for practical tips on how to audit them and what security controls are available to map to IT general computing controls. Other IT professionals whose job includes assessing compliance, such as DevSecOps teams, identity, and access management analysts, cloud engineers, and cloud security architects, will also find plenty of useful information in this book. Before you get started, you’ll need a basic understanding of IT systems and a solid grasp of cybersecurity basics.