Guide to Security Assurance for Cloud Computing

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:

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Describes the important general concepts and
principles of security assurance in cloud-based environments

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Presents applications and approaches to cloud security
that illustrate the current state of the art

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Reviews pertinent issues in relation to challenges
that prevent organizations moving to cloud architectures

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Provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the
latest empirical research findings

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software in order to address the challenges of securing distributed software

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Highlights the practicalities of cloud security, and
how applications can assure and comply with legislation

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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 theSpringer titles Big-Data
Analytics and Cloud Computing, Guide to Cloud Computing and Cloud Computing for
Enterprise Architectures.

Part I: Key Concepts. -
Privacy, Compliance and the Cloud. - Cryptographic Tools for Cloud Environments. - Migrating to Public Clouds - From a Security Perspective. - Virtualization Security in Cloud Computing. - Security of Cloud Based Storage. - Cloud Computing Governance, Risk, and Compliance The Quintessential Globalization Challenge. - Cloud Computing and Security in the Future. -
Part II: Application and Approaches. -
Security Certification for the Cloud: The CUMULUS Approach. - Improving Cloud Assurance and Transparency through Accountability Mechanisms. - DDoS Protection and Security Assurance in Cloud. - Cloud Data Auditing Using Proofs of Retrievability. - Vehicular Cloud Networks: Architecture and Security.