Seminar Security in Cloud Computing

(2 SWS, 3 CP)

Cloud Computing is a new paradigm for the IT industry. IT services such as infrastructures, platforms and applications are provided remotely, over the Internet. Resources are virtualized. Services are provisioned and de-provisioned on demand, controlled directly by the end users through self-service interfaces. Clouds may be deployed within an organization ("private cloud"), but usually one cloud serves a number of customers ("public cloud"), ranging from few to potentially billions of customers. Increasingly mobile devices (e.g., Apple's iPad) are used to access cloud services -- pointing to a future where IT is a utility like electricity or water, available anytime and everywhere to everybody, and users access IT through personally owned, powerful, mobile clients.

The basic ingredients of Cloud Computing are well known. New challenges are introduced through the specific technologies (e.g., self-service interface to service management softare, massively multi-tenant middleware, low-end hypervisors, cryptography supporting computations on encrypted data) and use cases (e.g., portability of workloads between different clouds, security and risk profiles of clouds, personally owned and powerful mobile devices as universal access devices for cloud computing, on-demand pricing of cloud services, deperimeterization of IT).

This seminar will cover technical approaches for security and privacy in cloud computing. Topics include the definition of cloud computing and cloud security, the security architectures of commercially available cloud offerings (Amazon, Google, IBM, etc.) and resource virtualization platforms (e.g., hypervisors, storage virtualization), and specific technologies and approaches in the context of cloud, such as cloud auditing standards, cloud-focused federated identity management, cloud forensics, encryption and key management for improved privacy.

Learn how to dive into a scientific topic, prepare a presentation similar to what is required at a scientific conference and lead a scientific discussion.

This seminar is taught by members of the SIT Research Group.

Contact:  Marco Ghiglieri

Winter 2011/12

Interested students need to apply via Tucan, by November 1st.

Time: Starting November 10th 16:30 (Date was moved !)

The seminar is supposed to be a block seminar which means that all presentations will be held on 1 or 2 days end of the semester. The dates will be discussed in the Kick-Off Meeting on 10.11.2011.

Location: S4 14 (CASED) | 4.3.01

Kick-Off Presentation (in German)