Traditional secret-based credentials can't scale to meet the complexity and size of cloud and
on-premises infrastructure. Today's applications are spread across a diverse range of clouds
and colocation facilities as well as on-prem data centers. Each layer of this modern stack has
its own attack vectors and protocols to consider. How can you secure access to diverse
infrastructure components from bare metal to ephemeral containers consistently and simply? In
this practical book authors Ev Kontsevoy Sakshyam Shah and Peter Conrad break this topic
down into manageable pieces. You'll discover how different parts of the approach fit together
in a way that enables engineering teams to build more secure applications without slowing down
productivity. With this book you'll learn: The four pillars of access: connectivity
authentication authorization and audit Why every attack follows the same pattern and how to
make this threat impossible How to implement identity-based access across your entire
infrastructure with digital certificates Why it's time for secret-based credentials to go away
How to securely connect to remote resources including servers databases K8s Pods and
internal applications such as Jenkins and GitLab Authentication and authorization methods for
gaining access to and permission for using protected resources
