OpenStack Cloud Security - Softcover

Locati, Fabio Alessandro

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782170987 ISBN 13: 9781782170983

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Build a secure OpenStack cloud to withstand all common attacks

About This Book

• Design, implement, and deliver a safe and sound OpenStack cluster using best practices
• Create a production-ready environment and protect your data on the cloud
• A step-by-step tutorial packed with real-world solutions that helps you learn easily and quickly

Who This Book Is For

If you are an OpenStack administrator or developer, or wish to build solutions to protect your OpenStack environment, then this book is for you. Experience of Linux administration and familiarity with different OpenStack components is assumed.

What You Will Learn

• Secure your servers, data center, and network to improve your environment for the cloud
• Gain insights into ISP intercept and social engineering
• Explore automated attacks with the help of mass phishing, brute force, and automated exploitation tools
• Secure your OpenStack installation from a networking perspective at both low and high levels
• Get to know how to secure your OpenStack to use only encrypted communications for APIs
• Configure secure communications on the OpenStack API
• Harden OpenStack Keystone and Horizon for a more secure environment
• Protect the Swift replication mechanism through network hardening

In Detail

OpenStack is a system that controls large pools of computing, storage, and networking resources, allowing its users to provision resources through a user-friendly interface. OpenStack helps developers with features such as rolling upgrades, federated identity, and software reliability.

You will begin with basic security policies, such as MAC, MLS, and MCS, and explore the structure of OpenStack and virtual networks with Neutron. Next, you will configure secure communications on the OpenStack API with HTTP connections. You will also learn how to set OpenStack Keystone and OpenStack Horizon and gain a deeper understanding of the similarities/differences between OpenStack Cinder and OpenStack Swift.

By the end of this book, you will be able to tweak your hypervisor to make it safer and a smart choice based on your needs.

About this title

About the Author

Fabio Alessandro Locati

Fabio Alessandro Locati is an Italian IT external consultant. His main areas of expertise are Linux, networking, security, data centers, and OpenStack. With more than 10 years of working experience in this field, he has experienced different IT roles, technologies, and languages. Fabio has worked for many different companies, starting from a one-man company to huge companies such as Tech Data and Samsung. This has allowed him to consider various technologies from different points of view, helping him develop critical thinking and understand whether a particular technology is the correct one in a very short span of time. Since he is always looking for better technologies, he also tries new technologies to see their advantages over the old ones. Two of the most important things Fabio evaluates in a technology are its internal security and the possibility of additional security through configuration or interaction with the other technologies. For virtualization, he often uses OpenStack due to its power and simplicity, ever since he first tried it in 2011. Fabio has used OpenStack for the public-facing cloud, as well as the internal clouds.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1782170987
• ISBN 13: 9781782170983
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160