Cloud Infrastructure Security
What is Cloud Infrastructure Security?
Security practices for protecting the underlying infrastructure of cloud environments including virtual machines, networks, storage, and orchestration platforms.
Terms that appear alongside cloud infrastructure security
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as cloud infrastructure security. The number is how many controls name both.
- infrastructure security 25 shared controls
- iso 27017 5 shared controls
- network segmentation 5 shared controls
- serverless security 5 shared controls
- cloud workload protection 5 shared controls
- hardening 5 shared controls
- cloud configuration management 5 shared controls
- configuration management 5 shared controls
Frameworks that govern cloud infrastructure security
What the standards actually require on cloud infrastructure security
Requirements naming cloud infrastructure security across 2 standards, quoted from the control text.
Cloud workload protection. Control from NIST SP 800-190 framework, domain: NIST SP 800-190: Cloud Infrastructure Security.
NIST190-18 · Cloud workload protection →Security Layer 1 Infrastructure per X.805 Clause 7.1: The Infrastructure Security Layer consists of network facilities (transmission facilities and network elements) protected by the security measures.
X805-Layer1-Infrastructure-Security-Transmission-Facilities-Network-Elements-Lines-Routers-Switches · ITU-T X.805 Security Layer 1 - Infrastructure Security + Transmission Facilities + Network Elements + Routers + Switches + Lines + Physical + Datacenter + Optical + Radio Access + Wireless + Wireline + Edge →Questions people ask about cloud infrastructure security
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