Privacy and Security for Cloud Computing

  • 6h 41m
  • George Yee (eds), Siani Pearson
  • Springer
  • 2013

This book analyzes the latest advances in privacy, security and risk technologies within cloud environments. With contributions from leading experts, the text presents both a solid overview of the field and novel, cutting-edge research. 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.

About the 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.

In this Book

  • Privacy, Security and Trust in Cloud Computing
  • Accessing Data in the Cloud: The Long Arm of the Law Enforcement Agent
  • A Privacy Impact Assessment Tool for Cloud Computing
  • Understanding Cloud Audits
  • Security Infrastructure for Dynamically Provisioned Cloud Infrastructure Services
  • Modeling the Runtime Integrity of Cloud Servers: A Scoped Invariant Perspective
  • Inadequacies of Current Risk Controls for the Cloud
  • Enterprise Information Risk Management: Dealing with Cloud Computing

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