Cloud Computing dominates the headlines these days but like most paradigm changes this introduces new risks and new opportunities for us to consider. Some deep technical research has gone into the underlying technologies (like Virtualization) but to some extent this serves only to muddy the waters when considering the overall …
Developers have developed applications for IaaS (Amazon AWS, Rackspace, etc) and PaaS (Azure, Google App Engine, Cloud Foundry) Cloud platforms. These platforms provide basic security features including support for authentication, DoS attack mitigation, firewall policy management, logging, basic user and profile management but security concerns continue to be the number …
A discussion of the security problems for both private and public cloud deployments and the solutions Joyent and the Cloud Security Alliance recommend.
This article explores the cloud computing security and cloud-specific vulnerabilities. Cloud computing’s core technologies – Web applications and services, virtualization, and cryptography – have vulnerabilities that are either intrinsic to the technology or prevalent in the technology’s state-of-the-art implementations.
Guest editors Iván Arce and Anup Ghosh of the IEEE Security & Privacy magazine put together a roundtable discussion so readers can hear about cloud computing security from those who are on the front lines, providing services and looking at the real-world threats and requirements from the market.
This blog post from discusses the most important quality attributes that a cloud infrastructure should have: scalability, availability , reliability, adaptability, security and accountability.
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