This practical and didactic text/reference discusses the leading edge of secure cloud computing, exploring the essential concepts and principles, tools, techniques and deployment models in this field. Enlightening perspectives are presented by an international collection of pre-eminent authorities in cloud security assurance from both academia and industry.
Topics and features:
ยท Describes the important general concepts and principles of security assurance in cloud-based environments
ยท Presents applications and approaches to cloud security that illustrate the current state of the art
ยท Reviews pertinent issues in relation to challenges that prevent organizations moving to cloud architectures
ยท Provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings
ยท Discusses real-world vulnerabilities of cloud-based software in order to address the challenges of securing distributed software
ยท Highlights the practicalities of cloud security, and how applications can assure and comply with legislation
ยท Includes review questions at the end of each chapter
This Guide to Security Assurance for Cloud Computing will be of great benefit to a broad audience covering enterprise architects, business analysts and leaders, IT infrastructure managers, cloud security engineers and consultants, and application developers involved in system design and implementation. The work is also suitable as a textbook for university instructors, with the outline for a possible course structure suggested in the preface.
The editors are all members of the Computing and Mathematics Department at the University of Derby, UK, where Dr. Shao Ying Zhu serves as a Senior Lecturer in Computing, Dr. Richard Hill as a Professor and Head of the Computing and Mathematics Department, and Dr. Marcello Trovati as a Senior Lecturer in Mathematics. The other publications of the editors include the Springer titles Big-Data Analytics and Cloud Computing, Guide to Cloud Computing and Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures.
โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Privacy, Compliance and the Cloud....Pages 3-14
Cryptographic Tools for Cloud Environments....Pages 15-30
Migrating to Public Clouds โ From a Security Perspective....Pages 31-50
Virtualization Security in Cloud Computing....Pages 51-63
Security of Cloud-Based Storage....Pages 65-81
Cloud Computing Governance, Risk, and Compliance โ The Quintessential Globalization Challenge....Pages 83-93
Cloud Computing and Security in the Future....Pages 95-108
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Security Certification for the Cloud: The CUMULUS Approach....Pages 111-137
Improving Cloud Assurance and Transparency Through Accountability Mechanisms....Pages 139-169
DDoS Protection and Security Assurance in Cloud....Pages 171-191
Cloud Data Auditing Using Proofs of Retrievability....Pages 193-210
Vehicular Cloud Networks: Architecture and Security....Pages 211-226
Back Matter....Pages 227-229
โฆ Subjects
Systems and Data Security; Computer Communication Networks; Management of Computing and Information Systems