Preface

Cloud computing is one of most booming fields nowadays, and many of the big organizations, as well as start-ups, are now migrating to a cloud platform to host their websites and applications from traditional data centers shared hosting or managed VPS-based approach.

With this sudden and fast transition to the cloud, the number of hacking incidents has also
increased tremendously because of lack of security awareness, guidance, and governance specifically related to the challenges in the cloud.

Many security approaches that were used in a datacenter or even on-premise cannot be
implemented in the cloud because of lack of control and visibility. This poses new
challenges related to how to effectively control the security.

This book is designed to provide you with a step-by-step guide along with tools and best
practices required to secure your infrastructure based on cloud platforms. Most of the approaches can still be applied to on-premise infrastructure.

All the mentioned approaches, tools, and best practices specified in this book are well tested and are currently being implemented by many of the big organizations while dealing with stringent compliance standards such as PCI DSS and many more.

This book strives to create a balance between introductory, detailed and practical aspects of the topics discussed so that it can be useful for various inpiduals who might be reading the book.