Chapter 65

Private Cloud Security

Keith Lewis     kCura, Chicago, IL, United States

Abstract

This chapter covers the importance of private cloud security, leveraging the advantages and disadvantages of the technology and how modern solutions have been able to provide working designs that make these solutions effective for cloud security–based infrastructures.

Keywords

Capacity; Cloud; Elasticity; Encryption; NIST; Off-prem; On-prem; Premises; Private; Public; SaaS; SAML; Security

1. Introduction: Private Cloud System Management

Companies and organizations are increasingly shifting their computer infrastructure resources from on-premises (on-prem) to off-premises (off-prem) cloud service models. By moving toward these off-site solution services, businesses ...

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