Practical Cloud Security (a Guide For Secure Design And Deployment)

By (author) Chris Dotson
Short description/annotation
This hands-on book guides you through security best practices for multivendor cloud environments, whether your company plans to move legacy on-premises projects to the cloud or build a new infrastructure from the ground up.
Description
With their rapidly changing architecture and API-driven automation, cloud platforms come with unique security challenges and opportunities. This hands-on book guides you through security best practices for multivendor cloud environments, whether your company plans to move legacy on-premises projects to the cloud or build a new infrastructure from the ground up. Developers, IT architects, and security professionals will learn cloud-specific techniques for securing popular cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and IBM Cloud. Chris Dotson—an IBM senior technical staff member—shows you how to establish data asset management, identity and access management, vulnerability management, network security, and incident response in your cloud environment.
Biographical note
Chris Dotson is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member and an executive security architect in the IBM Cloud and Watson Platform organization. Chris has 11 professional certifications, including the Open Group Distinguished IT Architect certification, and over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. Chris has been featured as a cloud innovator on the http: //www.ibm.com home page several times; his focus areas include cloud infrastructure and security, networking infrastructure and security, servers, storage, and bad puns.