Chapter 65: Cloud Security

Flavio Lombardi1, Roberto Di Pietro2, and Matteo Signorini3     1IAC-CNR, Rome, Italy     2King Abdullah University of Science and Technology CEMSE RC3, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia     3Nokia Bell Labs, Paris, France

Abstract

While the Cloud is still undergoing a spectacular growth, with novel paradigms being proposed, novel architectures being deployed, and the supporting HW and SW solutions being subject to an exponential pace of innovation, cloud security is still a vexed issue.

On the one hand, this is the byproduct of what is indicated above. With such a fast pace of transformation, focus is on technology advancements and delivery, rather than security.

On the other hand, if security is not addressed, the risk introduced by ...

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