Best Cloud books

Sécurité des architectures cloud

Intégrer et sécuriser une plateforme de gestion des API

An expert-level book focused on securing an API management platform in a modern cloud environment, with a progressive, operational approach through to how artificial intelligence contributes to API cybersecurity.

Hacking Kubernetes

Threat-Driven Analysis and Defense

A threat-modeling tour of a Kubernetes cluster, component by component, that teaches you to harden defaults by first showing you how each one gets broken.

How to Hack Like a Ghost

Breaching the Cloud

A narrated, real-time breach of a fictional data-driven political consulting firm's AWS and Kubernetes environment, written by a working penetration tester who presents at Black Hat and DEF CON.

Container Security

Fundamentals for Securing Containerized Applications

Liz Rice's first-principles introduction to how Linux containers actually work — namespaces, cgroups, capabilities, seccomp, image layering — and the security implications that fall out of those mechanics.

Kubernetes Security

Liz Rice and Michael Hausenblas's freely-available O'Reilly short on the Kubernetes-specific security model: API server, RBAC, network policy, secrets, and the typical hardening steps that move a cluster from default to defensible.

Kubernetes Security and Observability

A Holistic Approach to Securing Containers and Cloud-Native Applications

Brendan Creane and Amit Gupta's combined treatment of Kubernetes security and observability — RBAC, network policy, runtime detection, and the telemetry needed to make any of it operationally real.

Pentesting Azure Applications

The Definitive Guide to Testing and Securing Deployments

Matt Burrough on attacker behaviour against Azure tenants: identity, storage, VMs, key material handling, and the recon paths that work against real subscriptions.