The Little Book of Cloud Computing SECURITY, 2013 Edition

by Lars Nielsen

Completely updated for 2013, this new edition of the bestseller provides lay readers with a concise, to-the-point, up-to-date, no-nonsense introduction to the fundamental security issues confronting those enterprises who have moved, or are considering a move, to the Cloud. In a jargon-free approach that assumes little prior knowledge, Lars Nielsen explores both the advantages and the pitfalls of various options in order to provide the very best data by which enterprises can make informed decisions about how to proceed with their own Cloud security paradigms.

Introduction * Fear and Loathing in the Cloud * Rudiments * Cloud Security Alliance, the CSA GRK Stack, and STAR * Open Data Center Alliance (and Cooperation with CSA) * Microsoft's Free Cloud Security Readiness Tool * Cloud Standards Customer Council, and the Which Standards Organization Will Prevail? * Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP)

Genres: Nonfiction

60 pages, Paperback

First published April 11, 2011

Reviews

[Kapileshwar Patil · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is the very best book

[Rick · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a decent overview of the services out there, in one way. LIke it's good to sort of get your head around what Red Hat or VMWare is offering, and I have to say, Windows Azure seemed strangely kind of awesome. But in another way it's not particularly useful. Like it doesn't really help you understand what you can DO in the cloud, except only in abstract terms. But really its biggest failing is its over-reliance on PR releases and quotes. It feels very cobbled together. And then it sort of advertises that it was updated in the wake of the amazon crash, but all it really did was tell you there was a crash, so, hey, watch out!

I dunno, it's probably me. I am looking for a specific type of cloud computing book, but everything I can find is either too zeitgeisty, academic, or "move your business into the cloud" ish. This one is mostly the latter.

[Josh · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is largely a compilation of what cloud service vendors say about themselves. It's useful in the sense that the author has taken the trouble to identify the services and piece together their collateral. It makes no attempt to evaluate the strengths, weaknesses or appropriate uses of the different approaches or of cloud computing as a whole.

[John · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you want a general non technical overview of what popular public clouds have to offer and don't feel like googling them one at a time... then this is the book for you.

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good overview.