Computer Communications and Networks
2013
Privacy and Security for Cloud ComputingEditors:

• Siani Pearson,
• George Yee
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ISBN: 978-1-4471-4188-4 (Print) 978-1-4471-4189-1  (Online)



Series: Computer Communications and Networks

Pearson, Siani; Yee, George (Eds.)


2013, XVI, 306 p. 69 illus.

ISBN 978-1-4471-4189-1

  Immediately available per PDF-download (no DRM, watermarked)

About this book

• Contains contributions from leading experts in the field
•                                         Presents a solid overview of the field with a thorough introduction to the core issues, supplemented by a Glossary
•                                         Describes novel, cutting-edge research in the field, including a practical selection of innovative solutions to common problems
  

Despite the enormous potential of cloud computing, consumer uncertainty and concern regarding issues of privacy, security and trust remain a major barrier to the switch to cloud models.
This comprehensive and authoritative text/reference provides an in-depth analysis of the latest advances in privacy, security and risk technologies within cloud environments. Containing contributions from leading experts in the field, the text presents both a thorough introduction to the core issues, and a practical selection of innovative solutions to common problems. A Glossary is also included at the end of the book.
Topics and features:

• Considers the various forensic challenges for legal access to data in a cloud computing environment
• Discusses privacy impact assessments for the cloud, and examines the use of cloud audits to attenuate cloud security problems
• Reviews conceptual issues, basic requirements and practical suggestions for provisioning dynamically configured access control services in the cloud
• Proposes scoped invariants as a primitive for analyzing a cloud server for its integrity properties
• Investigates the applicability of existing controls for mitigating information security risks to cloud computing environments
• Describes risk management for cloud computing from an enterprise perspective
  

This pioneering volume is essential reading for business professionals, students and researchers interested in the field of privacy and security protection for the cloud, and/or complex service provisioning. Newcomers to these areas will benefit from the solid overview of the field, whereas established experts will value the novel, cutting-edge research described in the work.

Table of contents Part I: Introduction to the Issues
Privacy, Security and Trust in Cloud Computing
S. Pearson
Part II: Law Enforcement and Audits
Accessing Data in the Cloud: The Long Arm of the Law Enforcement Agent
I. Walden
A Privacy Impact Assessment Tool for Cloud Computing
D. Tancock, S. Pearson, and A. Charlesworth
Understanding Cloud Audits
F. Doelitzscher, C. Reich, M. Knahl, and N. Clark
Part III: Security and Integrity
Security Infrastructure for Dynamically Provisioned Cloud Infrastructure Services
Y. Demchenko, C. Ngo, C. de Laat, D. Lopez, A. Morales, and J. A. García-Espín
Modeling the Runtime Integrity of Cloud Servers: a Scoped Invariant Perspective
J. Wei, C. Pu, C. V. Rozas, A. Rajan, and F. Zhu
Part IV: Risk Considerations
Inadequacies of Current Risk Controls for the Cloud
S. Creese, M. Goldsmith and P. Hopkins
Enterprise Information Risk Management: Dealing with Cloud Computing
S. Shiu, A. Baldwin, and D. Pym

• Authors & Editors
  

Dr. Siani Pearson is a senior researcher in the Cloud and Security Research Lab of HP Labs, Bristol, UK.
Dr. George Yee is a consultant with his own company, and an Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada.