Cloud Security Best Practices and Common Errors

Cybersecurity attacks have increased manifold with nearly daily news about data breaches that are stressing consumer confidence and causing regulators to take notice. The CFPB recently fined Dwolla payments for lax cybersecurity practices. There have been similar enforcement actions from the The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

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Additionally, Gartner states that by 2020, more than 95% of the vulnerabilities will come from user error and misconfigurations. It is critical for businesses to quickly react to the changing regulatory landscape and address cybersecurity and compliance issues. Furthermore, as more software is bought “as-a-service” instead of being shrink-wrapped, more businesses must have a robust cloud operations and cybersecurity capability to protect their hosting platforms. Many SaaS providers are new to systems operations and infrastructure security.

In practice, most SaaS businesses tend to be stronger on the development practices and weaker on operations. "

Cloud operations requires taking into consideration patching. vulnerability management, boundary protection, enclave hardening, micro-segregation, and continuous monitoring. In order to operate safely, management attention to strong cloud and security operations is critical. In order to ensure a robust and secure cloud environment, it is critical to have a full-stack approach to security architecture as well as policies and procedures.

Have you made the move to the cloud or are you on the verge of doing so? If yes, you are probably asking yourself questions like:

• How to ensure that your data and your application is secure?
• Can you design a full-stack security architecture?
• Would real-life examples of others who have gone this route help you?
• Will a robust Compliance program be difficult to put in place?

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The Whitepaper covers:
Table of Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 Full-stack Cloud Security Architecture and Operations
2 Changing Business and Technology Landscape
2.1 Some real-world examples
3 Security Best Practices
3.1 Environment/Enclave Protection
3.2 Application Protection
3.3 Data Protection
3.4 Operating System and Installed Components
3.5 IaaS Platform Operations
4 Compliance
4.1 Risk Model
4.2 Assessment Approach
4.3 Documents
5 References
6 About stackArmor
7 Appendix A: Common IAM Configuration Alerts and Conditions

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