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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: 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.
About the author
Nick Reva is a security engineer, author, teacher and builder that loves growing and leading security engineering teams for the world's most ambitious engineering organizations. Over the last 10 years, Nick has led security engineering teams in building scalable security services in cloud-native environments at Snapchat and SpaceX.
Shrikant Pandhare is an engineering manager who leads infrastructure security at Snap Inc. He is passionate about cloud security monitoring, cross-cloud access patterns, Kubernetes security, and securing cloud fleet at scale. Previously, Shrikant led security initiatives at Splunk and helped build the cloud identity service at Oracle.
Michael Anderson is a security engineer and one of the founding members of the production security team at Snapchat. He has presented at several national conferences, including DEF CON. He also started the Kubernetes Security team at Snapchat, leading the security effort on new infrastructure models.
