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Enterprise Cloud Security and Governance

You're reading from  Enterprise Cloud Security and Governance

Product type Book
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788299558
Pages 410 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Zeal Vora Zeal Vora
Profile icon Zeal Vora

Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface 1. The Fundamentals of Cloud Security 2. Defense in Depth Approach 3. Designing Defensive Network Infrastructure 4. Server Hardening 5. Cryptography Network Security 6. Automation in Security 7. Vulnerability, Pentest, and Patch Management 8. Security Logging and Monitoring 9. First Responder 10. Best Practices

Organizing servers in groups

It is recommended to organize servers in a set of groups as, otherwise, if there are a lot of servers added, it will become more difficult to find the relevant one.

The groups should be based on the functionality of a server. This can be a generic group:

  • webservers
  • appservers
  • dbservers

Organizing servers into groups will also help us to quickly push patches to multiple systems at once; we will discuss this in the later sections.

Spacewalk provides a great feature to organize systems into Systems Groups, which allows us to organize servers into specific groups.

In the following screenshot, if you look at the left-hand side tab panel, there is a tab named System Groups. For our demo purpose, I have added one more server:

Click on the Systems Groups tab, and click on Create Group, which is in the right-hand corner of the screen. On clicking, you will...

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