AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud Security — The Practitioner’s Playbook (Zero Trust, CNAPP, XDR) By CyberDudeBivash • Date: September 20, 2025 (IST)
Executive Summary This hands-on field guide shows cloud engineers how to design, deploy, and operate Zero Trust on the Big-3 clouds—then wire in CNAPP/XDR for continuous assurance. You’ll get a decision matrix , reference architectures , copy-paste checklists , and IaC snippets to move from “secure by default” marketing to secure in production reality. What you’ll stand up: Identity-first guardrails (MFA, least-privilege, JIT admin, workload identities). Private-by-default networking (central egress inspection, service endpoints/PE, DDoS/WAF). Data protection & governance (KMS/Key Vault/Cloud KMS, secrets, classification/DLP). CNAPP + XDR stacks (GuardDuty/Security Hub • Defender for Cloud + Sentinel • SCC Premium + Chronicle). Compliance as code (SCP/Config Conformance Packs • Azure Policy • Org Policy/Policy Controller). SOC analytics with ready KQL/Logs Insights/Chronicle queries & SOAR playbooks. Decision Matrix Area AWS ...