Among the many hacking attempts carried out against information systems for the past few
years, cyber-attacks that could lead to a national-level threat included attacks against …

Cloud computing has become a hot topic in research in the enterprise and consumer sector.
It is clear to everyone that the opportunities and applications of cloud computing are …

Security is a very complex and challenging problem in Cloud organizations. Ensuring the
security of operations within the cloud by also enforcing the users' own security …

The chapter presents wide variety of topics concerning security in Big Data systems. Security
from end user side, data owner, and data uploader point of view is considered. Selected …

In cloud computing technology, task scheduling is one of the research challenges. For these
various algorithms, works such as particle swarm optimization (PSO), firefly algorithm, ant …

Aiming at the problems existing in the current study on cloud service purchase decision,
especially the evaluation index system is inadequate, as well as the quantification of …

Providing consistent security services in on-demand provisioned Cloud infrastructure
services is of primary importance due to multi-tenant and potentially multi-provider nature of …

Abstract This article describes how a Redundant Array of Independent Net-storages (RAIN)
can be deployed for confidentiality control in Cloud Computing. The RAIN approach splits …

Cloud computing a new recently emerged environment for the hosting and delivery of IT
services over a network typically includes on-demand, reliable, customized, self service …

Software as a Service (SaaS) can be viewed as the fourth wave of outsourcing. SaaS is a
relatively new type of service delivery model in which a service provider delivers its services …