Practical and Advanced Issues of Trusted Computing in the Cloud

15.05.2013 11:30-12:30 Moderator:

Practical and Advanced Issues of Trusted Computing in the Cloud

Cloud architectures will constitute cost-efficient backbones that will support the transmission, storage, and computing of the applications contents. These architectures can be used for business, scientific, and pervasive computing purposes. The diversity of the services delivered through cloud infrastructures increases their vulnerability to security incidents and attacks. The cost and complexity reduction requirements render the design and development of protection mechanisms even more challenging. In addition, key design features such as confidentiality, privacy, authentication, anonymity, survivability, dependability, and fault-tolerance are, in some extent, conflicting.

This talk explores research directions and technology trends to address trusted computing in cloud infrastructures. The purpose of the speech is to convey to the attendee the ability to:

• Understand security management challenges and opportunities in cloud environments
• Examine cloud computing risk, threats, and vulnerabilities
• Specify, validate, and implement preventive and reactive security policies for in a virtual environment
• Develop business continuity and disaster recovery plans for cloud computing
• Conduct security investigation missions to analyze attacks against cloud computing

Best Practice: The Reason why RLB Moved to the Cloud

The presentation details how insecure RLB's IT systems and infrastructure once were; the server infrastructure was held in a local government building with open public access, the building was classified by the British security services as being a terrorist target and there were periods where we couldn't enter the building safely in case of an emergency because the building is often used for filming TV series (I walked past Robert Vaughan from "The Magnificent Seven" once!) and for holding outdoor pop concerts.