Security for cloud computing / Flavio Lombardi, Roberto Di Pietro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lombardi, Flavio, author.

Di Pietro, Roberto (Computer scientist), author.

Series:

Artech House computer security series.

Artech House computer series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cloud computing--Security measures.

Cloud computing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2015]

Place of Publication:

Boston ; London : Artech House, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This comprehensive resource presents a highly informative overview of cloud computing security issues. This book focuses on relevant approaches aimed at monitoring and protecting computation and data hosted on heterogeneous computing resources. The most critical security aspects are thoroughly discussed, highlighting the importance of reliable secure computation over remote heterogeneous cloud nodes. This book shows that present cloud computing is inherently insecure therefore advanced execution models have to be developed to prevent unauthorized users from accessing or affecting others' data and computation. The cloud approach enables on-demand scalable services that allow performing large computations without the costs and maintenance/management issues of costly server farms (thus enabling a novel kind of outsourced computing). Essential reading for software and computer engineers as well as data architects and IT professionals to better understand the complexity and heterogeneity of modern cloud- based scenarios.

Contents:

1. Introduction. 1.1.Motivation. 1.2.About this book

1.3.Roadmap

2.Cloud definition and technologies. 2.1.Defining the Cloud

2.2.Cloud approaches and technologies

2.2.1.Amazon web services

2.2.2.MS Azure

2.2.3.OpenStack

2.3.Outsourcing and the Cloud

2.4.Accreditation and certification issues

2.5.Conclusions

3.Cloud security and virtualization. 3.1.Introduction

3.2.Cloud security issues

3.2.1.A model for cloud security

3.3.General Cloud protection

3.3.1.Threat model

3.3.2.Requirements

3.3.3.Effective monitoring

3.4.Technological details

3.5.Attacks and responses

3.5.1.Dealing with attacks

3.6.Nested virtualization and finer-grained security

3.7.Relevant contributions to virtualization security

3.8.Conclusion

4.Privacy issues in the Cloud. 4.1.Introduction

4.2.Cloud privacy issues

4.3.Encryption-based solutions for confidentiality

4.4.Statistical disclosure

4.5.Data splitting

4.6.Other security aspects

4.7.Relevant security metrics

4.8.Other relevant approaches and open issues

4.9.Conclusion

5.Advanced ,monitoring of services. 5.1.Introduction

5.1.1.Content and organization

5.2.Modeling and monitoring approaches

5.2.1.VM monitoring and security

5.2.2.Modeling complex systems

5.3.Graph-based modeling and EPA

5.3.1.Advanced scenario graphs

5.3.2.Action graph

5.3.3.Cooperating graphs

5.3.4.Node (re-)labeling

5.4.Technological details discussion

5.5.Conclusion

6.Cloud approaches to resilience. 6.1.Introduction

6.2.Problem statement and model

6.2.1.Modeling

6.3.Simpler approaches

6.4.More complex approaches

6.4.1.Multiround adaptive assignment matrix

6.4.2.A possible threat model

6.4.3.Adaptive approaches to cheating detection

6.5.Alternative approaches to reliability

6.6.Conclusion

7.Secure GPU Cloud. 7.1.Introduction

7.2.GPUS and computing

7.3.GPU architectures

7.3.1.Global memory

7.3.2.Shared memory

7.3.3.Registers

7.4.GPU Cloud and virtualization approaches

7.4.1.Virtualized CUDA

7.4.2.GPU Cloud and gaming

7.5.GPU data leakages

7.5.1.Exploiting shared memory

7.5.2.Exploiting global memory

7.6.Effective solutions and workarounds

7.7.Competing technologies and security

7.8.Conclusion

8.Security and reliability of Cloud networks

8.1.Introduction

8.2.Defining SDN and NFV

8.3.Virtual networking implementations

8.3.1.OpenDaylight

8.3.2.Open vSwitch

8.3.3.Ryu

8.4.Security issues

8.5.Conclusion

9.Concluding remarks. 9.1.Summary of the contributions

9.2.Boundary of the presented approaches and outlook

9.3.A perspective on interesting future developments.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 23, 2015).

ISBN:

1-60807-990-2