High Performance Cloud Auditing and Applications

This book presents the concepts, algorithms and components of high performance semantic cloud auditing systems to improve performance and security. Coverage includes auditing techniques, data collection techniques and storage and sharing techniques.

This book mainly focuses on cloud security and high performance computing for cloud auditing. The book discusses emerging challenges and techniques developed for high performance semantic cloud auditing, and presents the state of the art in cloud auditing, computing and security techniques with focus on technical aspects and feasibility of auditing issues in federated cloud computing environments.

In summer 2011, the United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) CyberBAT Cloud Security and Auditing Team initiated the exploration of the cloud security challenges and future cloud auditing research directions that are covered in this book. This work was supported by the United States government funds from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the AFOSR Summer Faculty Fellowship Program (SFFP), the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Visiting Faculty Research Program (VFRP), the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Health (NIH). All chapters were partially supported by the AFOSR Information Operations and Security Program extramural and intramural funds (AFOSR/RSL Program Manager: Dr. Robert Herklotz).

Key Features:

· Contains surveys of cyber threats and security issues in cloud computing and presents secure cloud architectures

· Presents in-depth cloud auditing techniques, federated cloud security architectures, cloud access control models, and access assured information sharing technologies · Outlines a wide range of challenges and provides solutions to manage and control very large and complex data sets

Discusses techniques to improve cloud performance and security Covers high performance semantic cloud auditing techniques, cloud data collection techniques, cloud security mechanisms, cloud storage and sharing techniques Presents the state of the art in federated cloud auditing, computing and security techniques Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Dr. Keesook J. Han is the CyberBAT Cloud Security and Auditing Team Lead at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, New York, USA. Dr. Baek-Young Choi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science Electrical Engineering at the University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA. Dr. Sejun Song is an assistant professor in the Department of Electronics & Telecommunications at the Texas A&M University, USA.

Inhalt

An Overview of Issues and Recent Developments in Cloud Computing and Storage Security.- Moving Target Defense for Cloud Infrastructures: Lessons from Botnets.- Secure Mobile Cloud Computing and Security Issues.- Information Fusion in a Cloud-Enabled Environment.- Diagnosing Vulnerability Patterns in Cloud Audit Logs.- Exploiting Timing Side Channel for Secure Cloud Scheduling.- Federated Cloud Security Architecture for Secure and Agile Clouds.-Trust-Based Access Control for Secure Computing.- Assured Information Sharing (AIS) Using Private Clouds.- GPGPU Computing for Cloud Auditing.- CPU-GPU System Designes for High Performance Cloud Computing.- MapReduce Performance in Federated Cloud Computing Envorionments.- Improving Cloud Performance with Router-based Filtering.