High Performance Cloud Auditing and Applications

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

Part I: Cloud Architectures and Security Issues

• 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

Part II: Cloud Auditing and Assured Information Sharing

• Diagnosing Vulnerability Patterns in Cloud Audit Logs
• Exploiting Timing Side Channel in Secure Cloud Scheduling
• Federated Cloud Security Architecture for Secure and Agile Clouds
• Trust-Based Access Control for Secure Cloud Computing
• Assured Information Sharing (AIS) Using Private Clouds

Part III: High Performance Cloud Computing

•  GPGPU Computing for Cloud Auditing
•  CPU-GPU System Designs for High Performance Cloud Computing
•  MapReduce Performance in Federated Cloud Computing Environments
• Improving Cloud Performance with Router-based Filtering    
                                                
    

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.