Expert Cloud Security: Solutions for Service-Oriented Organizations

by Arpan Roy, Santonu Sarkar

Clouds face many threats like compromises of the hypervisor, insecure cloud storage, insecure images of VMs that are used infrequently, and remote cloud clients that face threats from malicious outsiders and insiders. Whether in a private cloud or third-party infrastructures, your services remain under threat and need protection that must be ever more sophisticated. Expert Cloud Solutions for Service-oriented Organizations offers the solutions IT pros need to secure clouds from malicious sources as well as from poor security practices and IT ignorance. Arpan Roy, a cloud security expert for Infosys, first takes a deep dive into security issues relating to cloud systems. These span four broad areas that include the computing infrastructure, the data, security in communication, and external and insider service integration threats. For each security issue, the reader will learn about the potential causes of threats, a comparative study of relevant security case studies in the area, and a range of possible countermeasures. Roy also provides background on each--the significance of each security area, its relevance to a service company that deploys or manages clouds, and the current state of research. You will Wearing a practitioner’s glasses, Roy explores the relevance of each attack scenario and how to protect your company or clients from them. There are many threats to your company’s or client’s cloud, but as you will learn, knowledge, insight, and effective tools—all of which this book provides—can keep your cloud infrastructure working and secure at all times. Those charged with protecting an organization’s cloud services.

300 pages, Paperback