Cloud Security: Concepts, Applications and Practices

This comprehensive work surveys the challenges, the best practices in the industry, and the latest developments and technologies. It covers the fundamentals of cloud computing, including deployment models, service models, and the benefits of cloud computing, followed by critical aspects of cloud security, including risk management, threat analysis, data protection, identity and access management, and compliance. Cloud Security explores the latest security technologies, such as encryption, multi‑factor authentication, and intrusion detection and prevention systems, and their roles in securing the cloud environment.

Features:

• Introduces a user-centric measure of cyber security and provides a comparative study on different methodologies used for cyber security
• Offers real-world case studies and hands-on exercises to give a practical understanding of cloud security
• Includes the legal and ethical issues, including the impact of international regulations on cloud security
• Covers fully automated run-time security and vulnerability management
• Discusses related concepts to provide context, such as Cyber Crime, Password Authentication, Smart Phone Security with examples

This book is aimed at postgraduate students, professionals, and academic researchers working in the fields of computer science and cloud computing.

Jamuna S Murthy is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bengaluru. She is pursuing her PhD degree in the area of Deep Learning. She has been academic topper throughout her education and has received Best Project Award for her M.Tech thesis work from Ramaiah Institute of Technology under the year 2017. She has received funding from DST for product development called “FitQua: Smart Water Bottle” under the year 2020 - 2022. She specializes in the 'Architecting with Google Compute Engine' certification by Google Cloud and is recognized as a Certified Educator. She also holds a good publication record of peer reviewed International Conferences such as ICACNI-2017, ICACDS 2021 & 2022, COMSYS -2023. Her journals and Book Publications include IGI Global, Springer etc. Her research interests include Cloud Computing and Big Data, Theoretical Computer Science, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing. She is a distinguished member of Association for Computing Machinery, National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) and ISTE.

Dr. Siddesh G M is currently working as Professor and Head in Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore. He is the recipient of Seed Money to Young Scientist for Research (SMYSR) for FY 2014-15, from Government of Karnataka, Vision Group on Science and Technology (VGST). He has published a good number of research papers in reputed International Conferences and Journals. He has authored books on Network Data Analytics, Statistical Programming in R, Internet of Things with Springer, Oxford University Press and Cengage publishers respectively. He has edited research monographs in the area of Cyber Physical Systems, Fog Computing and Energy Aware Computing, Bioinformatics with CRC Press, IGI Global and Springer publishers respectively. His research interests include Internet of Things, Distributed Computing and Data Analytics.He is a member of ISTE, IETE etc.

Dr. Srinivasa K G is a Professor of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Programme at DSPM IIIT-Naya Raipur, C. G. India. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangalore University in 2007. He is the recipient of All India Council for Technical Education – Career Award for Young Teachers, Indian Society of Technical Education – ISGITS National Award for Best Research Work Done by Young Teachers, Institution of Engineers (India) – IEI Young Engineer Award in Computer Engineering, Rajarambapu Patil National Award for Promising Engineering Teacher Award from ISTE – 2012, IMS Singapore – Visiting Scientist Fellowship Award. He has published more than 150 research papers in International Conferences and Journals. He has visited many Universities abroad as a visiting researcher – He has visited University of Oklahoma, USA, Iowa State University, USA, Hong Kong University, Korean University, National University of Singapore, University of British Columbia, Canada are his few prominent visits. He has authored many books in the area of Learning Analytics, Network Data Analytics, Soft Computing, Social Network Analysis, High Performance Computing, R Programming etc. with prestigious international publishers like Springer, TMH, Oxford, Cengage, and IGI Global. He has edited research monographs in the area of Cyber Physical Systems, Fog Computing and Energy Aware Computing with CRC Press and IGI Global. He has been awarded BOYSCAST Fellowship by DST, Govt. of India, for conducting post-doctoral research work at University of Melbourne, Australia. His recent research areas include Innovative Teaching Practices in Engineering Education, pedagogy; outcomes based education.He is the senior member of IEEE and ACM.