Cloud

Question 1

Name 4 categories of cloud services.

Answer 1

1. IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service provides the fundamental building blocks for cloud IT, such as virtual machines, storage, networking, and operating systems. IaaS gives you control over the underlying infrastructure, which allows you to customize your cloud environment to meet your specific needs.
2. PaaS: Platform as a Service provides a development environment that includes everything you need to build, deploy, and manage applications.
3. SaaS: Software as a Service delivers applications over the internet, with the cloud provider managing the infrastructure and platform.
4. XaaS: Anything as a Service is a catch-all term for any cloud computing service that doesn’t fit neatly into one of the other categories. XaaS can include services such as disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), backup as a service (BaaS), and identity as a service (IDaaS).

Question 2

What is fog computing?

Answer 2

Fog computing is a local network infrastructure between IoT devices and the cloud designed to speed up data transmission and processing.

Question 3

What is a CASB?

Answer 3

A Cloud Access Security Broker is a security solution that enforces security policies across cloud applications. CASBs can be used to control user access to cloud applications, monitor cloud application usage, and protect data in transit and at rest.

Question 4

What is the CSA?

Answer 4

The Cloud Security Alliance is a non-profit organization that promotes the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing, and to provide education on the uses of cloud computing to help secure all other forms of computing.

Question 5

Describe the CCM.

Answer 5

The Cloud Controls Matrix is a framework developed by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) to help organizations assess and improve the security of their cloud deployments.

Question 6

What is a VM sprawl?

Answer 6

A VM sprawl is a situation in which large number of deployed virtual machines lack proper administrative controls.

Question 7

What is a VM Escape?

Answer 7

A VM Escape is an exploit that allows an attacker to break out of a virtual machine (VM) and gain control of the hypervisor or underlying host system.