Evaluation of the Security Mechanisms in Cloud Networks

ISBN-13: 9783659256288 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 192 str.

Kannan Anand

Opis

Cloud networking is a new technology which integrates network provisioning with the existing cloud service provisioning models thereby completing the cloud computing picture by addressing the networking aspects. In cloud networking, shared network resources are virtualized, and provisioned to customers and end-users on-demand in an elastic fashion. This technology allows various kinds of optimization, e.g., reducing latency and network load. Further, this allows service providers to provision network performance guarantees as a part of their service offering. However, this new approach introduces new security challenges. This work presents and evaluates set of potential techniques for securing different resource in a cloud network environment.The work begins with a holistic view of the Cloud networking, as described in the Scalable and Adaptive Internet Solutions (SAIL) project, along with its proposed architecture and security goals. This is followed by an overview of the problems that need to be solved and some of the different methods that can be applied to solve parts of the overall problem, specifically a comprehensive, tightly integrated, and multi-level security architecture

O autorze

Anand Kannan is a technology evangelist currently based in Stockholm. He worked on Next generation networks in Cisco offshore development center, India and as a researcher with Fraunhofer, Germany and was a part of the SAIL an EU-FP7 project. He has authored many international research publications in the fields of Cloud, Networking and Security.