Privacy and Security for Cloud Computing (Computer Communications and Networks)

ISBN 10: 1447141881 / ISBN 13: 9781447141884

Published by Springer, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Privacy and Security for Cloud Computing (Computer Communications and Networks)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1447141881
• ISBN 13: 9781447141884
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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 Author

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.