Cloud Computing with Security: Concepts and Practices

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This book provides readers with an overview of Cloud Computing, starting with historical background on mainframe computers and early networking protocols, leading to current concerns such as hardware and systems security, performance, emerging areas of IoT, Edge Computing etc. Readers will benefit from the in-depth discussion of cloud computing usage and the underlying architectures. The authors explain carefully the “why’s and how’s” of Cloud Computing, so engineers will find this book an invaluable source of information to the topic. This second edition includes new material on Cloud Computing Security, Threat Vectors and Trust Models, as well as best practices for a using dynamic cloud infrastructure, and cloud operations management. Several new examples and analysis of cloud security have been added, including edge computing with IoT devices. Front Matter ....Pages i-xliv Introduction (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt, John M. Acken)....Pages 1-11 Foundations of Cloud Computing and Information Security (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt, John M. Acken)....Pages 13-48 Cloud Computing Pyramid (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt, John M. Acken)....Pages 49-59 Features of Private and Public Cloud (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt, John M. Acken)....Pages 61-73 Cloud Workload Characterization (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt, John M. Acken)....Pages 75-97 Cloud Management and Monitoring (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt, John M. Acken)....Pages 99-110 Cloud Computing and Information Security (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt, John M. Acken)....Pages 111-141 Migrating to Cloud (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt, John M. Acken)....Pages 143-154 Migrating a Complex Industry to Cloud (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt, John M. Acken)....Pages 155-172 Cost and Billing Practices in Cloud (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt, John M. Acken)....Pages 173-191 Additional Security Considerations for Cloud (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt, John M. Acken)....Pages 193-215 Analytics in the Cloud (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt, John M. Acken)....Pages 217-233 Future Trends in Cloud Computing (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt, John M. Acken)....Pages 235-259 A Quick Test of Your Cloud Fundamentals Grasp (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt, John M. Acken)....Pages 261-269 Hands-On Project to Use Cloud Service Provider (Naresh Kumar Sehgal, Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt, John M. Acken)....Pages 271-313 Back Matter ....Pages 315-355