JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

UNIT - I

CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS: Cloud Computing definition, private, public and hybrid cloud. Cloud types; IaaS, PaaS, SaaS. Benefits and challenges of cloud computing, public vs private clouds, role of virtualization in enabling the cloud; Business Agility: Benefits and challenges to Cloud architecture.

UNIT - II

CLOUD APPLICATIONS: Technologies and the processes required when deploying web services-Deploying a web service from inside and outside a cloud architecture, advantages and disadvantages- Development environments for service development; Amazon, Azure, Google App.

UNIT - III

SECURING THE CLOUD: Security Concepts - Confidentiality, privacy, integrity, authentication, nonrepudiation, availability, access control, defence in depth, least privilege- how these concepts apply in the cloud and their importance in PaaS, IaaS and SaaS. e.g. User authentication in the cloud.

UNIT - IV

VIRTUALIZATION SECURITY: Multi-tenancy Issues: Isolation of users/VMs from each other- How the cloud provider can provide this- Virtualization System Security Issues: e.g. ESX and ESXi Security, ESX file system security- storage considerations, backup and recovery- Virtualization System Vulnerabilities.

UNIT - V

CLOUD SECURITY MANAGEMENT: Security management in the cloud – security management standards- SaaS, PaaS, IaaS availability management- access control- Data security and storage incloud.

TEXTBOOK:

• 1. Gautam Shroff, “Enterprise Cloud Computing Technology Architecture Applications”, Cambridge University Press; 1 edition [ISBN: 978-0521137355], 2010.

REFERENCES:

• 1. Toby Velte, Anthony Velte, Robert Elsenpeter, “Cloud Computing, A Practical Approach”, Tata McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition 22, 2009.
• 2. Tim Mather, Subra Kumara swamy, Shahed Latif, “Cloud Security and Privacy: an Enterprise Perspective on Risks and Compliance”, O'Reilly Media; 1 edition, 2009.
• 3. Ronald L. Krutz, Russell Dean Vines, “Cloud Security”, Wiley, 2010. M. Tech- I Year – I Semester (Cyber Forensics & Information Security/Cyber Security)