Overview
- Provides in-depth coverage of the security issues that prevent businesses moving to the cloud
- Presents both technical and business perspectives on cloud security issues
- Includes case studies, possible solutions, and advice for businesses
Part of the book series: Computer Communications and Networks (CCN)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Key Concepts
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Application and Approaches
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About this book
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:
· Describes the important general concepts and principles of security assurance in cloud-based environments
· Presents applications and approaches to cloud security that illustrate the current state of the art
· Reviews pertinent issues in relation to challenges that prevent organizations moving to cloud architectures
· Provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings
· Discusses real-world vulnerabilities of cloud-based software in order to address the challenges of securing distributed software
· Highlights the practicalities of cloud security, and how applications can assure and comply with legislation
· 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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Guide to Security Assurance for Cloud Computing
Editors: Shao Ying Zhu, Richard Hill, Marcello Trovati
Series Title: Computer Communications and Networks
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25988-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-25986-4Published: 18 March 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79872-1Published: 24 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-25988-8Published: 09 March 2016
Series ISSN: 1617-7975
Series E-ISSN: 2197-8433
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 229
Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations
Topics: Systems and Data Security, Computer Communication Networks, Management of Computing and Information Systems