Mastering Cloud Security Posture Management
Tags: cloudcomputing, books, security
Published: 2024-01-04 11:10:12

**Strategies and proven techniques to improve security across multi-cloud infrastructure. **

📚 Exciting News! Book Announcement! 🎉

Dear Medium Family,
I am thrilled (and equally nervous as a debutante author) to close this year by announcing that the preorder for my upcoming book, “Mastering Cloud Security Posture Management”, published by Packt is now officially open! 🚀


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Cover page: Mastering Cloud Security Posture Management
🌟** About the Book:**
Cloud security posture management (CSPM) is crucial for maintaining a robust security stance in the cloud. This book shows you how to effectively implement CSPM to ensure optimal security posture across multi-cloud infrastructures.

Enhance your security posture in all aspects of CSPM technology, from security infrastructure design to implementation strategies, automation, and remedial actions using operational best practices across cloud environment.

**Key Features**

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Effectively tackle security misconfigurations in the cloud
Save time by efficiently applying deeper insights with the help of tips, tricks, and proven techniques.

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Improve security by design and achieve the highest security compliance score levels by using security automations
Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
Book Description

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Cloud security posture management (CSPM) is crucial for maintaining a robust security stance in the cloud. This book shows you how to effectively implement CSPM to ensure optimal security posture across multi-cloud infrastructures.

The book begins by helping you understand the fundamentals of cloud security, debunking myths surrounding the shared responsibility model, and introducing crucial topics such as defense-in-depth, the Zero Trust Model, and compliance concepts. Next, you’ll explore CSPM’s core components, tools, selection criteria, deployment strategies, and environment settings. The chapters also teach you about critical aspects like onboarding cloud accounts, dashboard customization, cloud assets inventory, configuration risks, and query exploration for effective threat hunting. As you progress, you’ll get to grips with operational practices, vulnerability and patch management, compliance benchmarks, and security alerts, and be introduced to cloud workload protection platforms (CWPPs). The concluding chapters focus on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scanning, DevSecOps, and workflow automation, enabling you to thoroughly understand how to secure multi-cloud environments.

By the end of this book, you’ll have developed the skills to play a vital role at every level, from decision-making to operations.

**What you will learn**
Find out how to deploy and onboard cloud accounts using CSPM tools.
Discover security posture aspects such as the dashboard, asset inventory, and risks.
Explore the Kusto Query Language (KQL) and write threat hunting queries.
Understand security recommendations and operational best practices.
Get to grips with vulnerability, patch and compliance management, and governance.
Familiarize yourself with security alerts, monitoring, and workload protection best practices.
Manage IaC scan policies and learn to effectively handle exceptions.
✨** Who this book is for**
If you are a cloud security administrator, security engineer, or DevSecOps engineer, this book will be beneficial every step of the way, from proof of concept to the secured, automated implementation of CSPM that’ll ensure proper auto-remediation configuration in place. This book will also help cybersecurity managers, security leads, and cloud security architects looking to explore the decision matrix and key requirements for choosing the right product, as well as cloud security enthusiasts who want to enhance their knowledge to improve the security posture of multi-cloud infrastructure.

📅 _Preorder link_ — https://packt.link/QN

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Preorder: Mastering Cloud Security Posture Management
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Until the next one, Happy Learning!

— Qamar