Anton Chuvakin
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by Anton Chuvakin | January 14, 2012 | 4 Comments
This post is not a whine about how security in public cloud environments is lagging behind the traditional physical environments. There is nothing here to whine about since our experience with other IT advances – think PC, client-server, web applications, mobile devices – teaches us that it is ALWAYS the case for new technologies. The cycle, that some people might call ‘vicious’, happens like this:
and then the next tech is invented and the cycle repeats. Let’s consider security monitoring of IT resources deployed on public clouds, whether SaaS, PaaS or IaaS. Such security monitoring includes logs (primarily), network traffic analysis, host activity monitoring as well as other well-known monitoring mechanisms (for a superb review of these, please review “Security Monitoring” template by Ramon Krikken). As my research project progresses, I am coming across various challenges to cloud asset security monitoring. Here is a quick list:
So, my journey continues – watch for more blog posts on cloud security monitoring as my project eventually culminates in architectural guidance for cloud security monitoring …
By the way, if you are a vendor with a technology helpful for security monitoring of public cloud assets, please brief me on your technology.
Previous cloud security monitoring related posts are:
Category: SIEM cloud logging security Tags: cloud security, security, security monitoring
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