Cloud Security: A Comprehensive Guide to Secure Cloud Computing

This book covers Cloud computing fundamentals, architectures, service delivery approaches, deployment models, software as a service, platform as a service, and security governance. Fulfilling its comprehensive promise, it also presents Cloud computing risk management, compliance and legal responsibilities of remotely stored and maintained data, life cycle management, interoperability, business continuity and disaster recovery planning from the perspective of the user and the Cloud provider, handling of incidents and remediation, application security, encryption issues, storage, virtualization mechanisms and vulnerabilities, and access control. This book is the most current and complete guide to helping readers wend their way through a maze of security minefields that are present in any vendor's cloud computing technologies.