A no-fluff guide to implementing best practices for securing cloud native services.This book teaches you best practices for building a scaled cloud native security program, with a focus on microservices security. You’ll be guided through every step of developing and deploying security infrastructure in a cloud native software development environment, using modern, cutting-edge security tenets. In later chapters, you’ll put all of these skills together in a case study from the author’s first-hand experience as engineers and technical managers. This vendor-agnostic book relies on open source software and in-house tools you can scale up or down for your own organization’s requirements.
Along the way, you’ll learn to:
- Perform threat monitoring to understand the security properties and risks of cloud native environments
- Implement secure authorization and authentication with cloud native patterns
- Use runtime monitoring to catch and stop attacks
- Implement secrets management and build secure network and services meshes
- Think like a security engineer at scale to effectively plan secure designs
Each chapter provides step-by-step explanations of vital concepts, practical examples, common security mistakes, and quizzes to test your knowledge. Whether you’re a one-person security team or part of a larger organization,, this book equips you with the skills to build a scaled cloud native security program.
