E-Books →Identity-native Infrastructure Access Management (Second Early Release)

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