Guide to Security Assurance for Cloud Computing（Hardcover）

This practical and didactic text/reference discusses the leading edge of secure cloud computing, exploring the essential concepts and principles, tools, techniques and deployment models in this field. Enlightening perspectives are presented by an international collection of pre-eminent authorities in cloud security assurance from both academia and industry.

Topics and features:

·         Describes the important general concepts and principles of security assurance in cloud-based environments

·         Presents applications and approaches to cloud security that illustrate the current state of the art

·         Reviews pertinent issues in relation to challenges that prevent organizations moving to cloud architectures

·         Provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings

·         Discusses real-world vulnerabilities of cloud-based software in order to address the challenges of securing distributed software

·         Highlights the practicalities of cloud security, and how applications can assure and comply with legislation

·         Includes review questions at the end of each chapter

This Guide to Security Assurance for Cloud Computing will be of great benefit to a broad audience covering enterprise architects, business analysts and leaders, IT infrastructure managers, cloud security engineers and consultants, and application developers involved in system design and implementation. The work is also suitable as a textbook for university instructors, with the outline for a possible course structure suggested in the preface.

The editors are all members of the Computing and Mathematics Department at the University of Derby, UK, where Dr. Shao Ying Zhu serves as a Senior Lecturer in Computing, Dr. Richard Hill as a Professor and Head of the Computing and Mathematics Department, and Dr. Marcello Trovati as a Senior Lecturer in Mathematics. The other publications of the editors include the Springer titles Big-Data Analytics and Cloud Computing, Guide to Cloud Computing and Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures.

這本實用且教學性的文獻/參考書討論了安全雲端運算的前沿，探索了這個領域中的基本概念和原則、工具、技術和部署模型。來自學術界和工業界的國際頂尖專家們提供了啟發性的觀點，關於雲端安全保證。

主題和特點:
· 描述了在基於雲端環境中的安全保證的重要概念和原則
· 提供了展示當前最先進的雲端安全應用和方法
· 檢視了與阻礙組織轉向雲端架構相關的問題
· 提供相關的理論框架和最新的實證研究結果
· 討論了基於雲端軟體的實際漏洞，以應對保護分散式軟體的挑戰
· 強調了雲端安全的實際性，以及應用程式如何確保並遵守法規
· 每章末尾都包含了評論問題

這本《雲端運算安全保證指南》將對廣大讀者群體產生巨大的益處，包括企業架構師、業務分析師和領導者、IT基礎架構經理、雲端安全工程師和顧問，以及參與系統設計和實施的應用程式開發人員。這本書也適合作為大學教師的教材，前言中提供了可能的課程結構大綱建議。

編者們都是英國德比大學計算機和數學系的成員，其中Dr. Shao Ying Zhu擔任計算機高級講師，Dr. Richard Hill擔任計算機和數學系教授兼系主任，Dr. Marcello Trovati擔任數學高級講師。編者們的其他出版物包括Springer出版社的《大數據分析和雲端運算》、《雲端運算指南》和《企業架構的雲端運算》。