Cloud Security and Privacy: An Enterprise Perspective on Risks and Compliance

by Tim Mather, Subra Kumaraswamy, Shahed Latif

You may regard cloud computing as an ideal way for your company to control IT costs, but do you know how private and secure this service really is? Not many people do. With Cloud Security and Privacy , you'll learn what's at stake when you trust your data to the cloud, and what you can do to keep your virtual infrastructure and web applications secure.

Ideal for IT staffers, information security and privacy practitioners, business managers, service providers, and investors alike, this book offers you sound advice from three well-known authorities in the tech security world. You'll learn detailed information on cloud computing security that-until now-has been sorely lacking.

Genres: Nonfiction

334 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[J]

Best cover!

[Sheffielder · Rating 2 out of 5]

Excellent for IT professionals, less so as a course text book.

This is a well-informed book covering a developing area, which has clearly been written by people who know their business. It would be of considerable use to information technology professionals involved in migration to cloud-based services.

However, I have specifically been considering it from the point of view of adoption for a level 3 undergraduate module on computer forensics and security, and in this regard it appears to be far less suitable, since most students would not have the industrial experience and expertise required to make proper use of the content.

[Donald]

A mixed bag wrt cloud computing and security. On the plus side, it covers the landscape in terms of issues and gives specific information for different service models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) and different deployment models (Public, Community, Private). On the negative side, reaches conclusions that are not, IMHO, always justified. Examples: Sensitive data must not be processed in a public cloud. Federated IdAM is the right approach for clouds. FISMA prohibits U. S. Federal government organizations form using anything other than private clouds.

[Sébastien]

shall be read before an outsourcing prestudies

[Muhammad · Rating 4 out of 5]

the book give a good over view about the cloud Security and privacy, it also has a good introduction about the cloud definition and infrastructure .

[Elijah Oyekunle · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book explores the security aspect of Cloud computing and provides security recommendation for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS customers.