From the course: CCSP Cert Prep: 4 Cloud Application Security Audio Review

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Cloud application architecture

Cloud application architecture

From the course: CCSP Cert Prep: 4 Cloud Application Security Audio Review

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Cloud application architecture

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- [Instructor] In chapter six, I covered the ways that you can build secure applications in a cloud environment. Let's review them. (whooshing) First, we walked through the components of a secure cloud application architecture. These include the use of network security groups to provide firewall functionality, the use of TLS to protect data in transit with cryptography and the use of full disk encryption to protect stored date. In a cloud environment, we can usually deploy full disk encryption as a simple setting change. Application virtualization is another security control that we can deploy in both on-premises and cloud settings to reduce the need for users to access data on their own devices. Web application firewalls play an important role in protecting cloud-based applications. They inspect HTTP requests made to a web server and watch for any signs of potential attack occurring against the application itself.…

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