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Cloud Security Engineering

Cloud Security Engineering

A practical, multi-cloud guide to securing AWS, Azure, and GCP workloads. Twelve chapters cover IAM hardening, CSPM/CWPP, IaC scanning, Kubernetes defense, and cloud incident response, each paired with runnable policies, scan configs, and detection rules you can put to work immediately.

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Cloud Security Engineering is a practical, multi-cloud guide built for engineers who already know their way around AWS, Azure, or GCP and now need to secure what they've built. Across twelve chapters, the book moves from foundations (the shared responsibility model, identity, and networking) through the day-to-day work of data protection, compute hardening, and posture management, into the deeper territory of workload protection, infrastructure-as-code scanning, Kubernetes security, and cloud incident response.


This isn't a theory book. Every chapter pairs conceptual explanation with real, runnable artifacts: least-privilege IAM policies, Terraform security scans, CSPM checklists, Falco and Sentinel detection rules, and a complete incident response runbook you can adapt directly. Real breaches, including the 2024 Snowflake incident, are examined for the engineering lessons they offer, not for blame.

Whether your workloads live primarily in one cloud or you're building a unified multicloud governance program, this book gives you the patterns, the tooling map, and the program-level guidance to ship cloud security at scale, engineered in from the start rather than bolted on at the end.

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SouthStone Publications

SouthStone Publications is a publisher dedicated to advancing practical knowledge across web development, IT engineering, programming, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity. Working closely with a network of subject matter experts and industry practitioners, SouthStone produces books, guides, and training programs designed to translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable knowledge. Its catalog has supported developers, engineers, analysts, and security professionals around the world in building more resilient, scalable, and well-architected systems.

Proud to be the first publisher in the Cybersecurity category on LeanPub, SouthStone Publications is committed to bridging the gap between deep technical expertise and accessible education, helping practitioners at every stage of their careers stay ahead in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

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