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

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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.

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Part I: Key Concepts

Privacy, Compliance and the Cloud Chris Mitchell

Cryptographic Tools for Cloud Environments James Alderman, Jason Crampton & Keith M. Martin

Migrating to Public Clouds - From a Security Perspective Thomas Holding, John Panneerselvam & Lu Liu

Virtualization Security in Cloud Computing Muhammad Kazim & Shao Ying Zhu

Security of Cloud Based Storage Shweta Saharan & Gaurav Somani

Cloud Computing Governance, Risk, and Compliance - The Quintessential Globalization Challenge Rhonda L Farrell

Cloud Computing and Security in the Future Nigel McKelvey, Kevin Curran, Benny Gordon, Edward Devlin & Kenneth Johnston

Part II: Application and Approaches

Security Certification for the Cloud: The CUMULUS Approach Marco Anisetti, Claudio A. Ardagna, Ernesto Damiani, Antonio Maña, George Spanoudakis, Luca Pino & Hristo Koshutanski

Improving Cloud Assurance and Transparency through Accountability Mechanisms Gaurav Somani, Manoj Singh Gaur & Dheeraj Sanghi

DDoS Protection and Security Assurance in Cloud Siani Pearson, Jesus Luna & Christoph Reich

Cloud Data Auditing Using Proofs of Retrievability Binanda Sengupta & Sushmita Ruj

Vehicular Cloud Networks: Architecture and Security Farhan Ahmad, Muhammad Kazim & Asma Adnane