Download or read book Risk Thinking for Cloud Based Application Services written by Eric Bauer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many enterprises are moving their applications and IT services to the cloud. Better risk management results in fewer operational surprises and failures, greater stakeholder confidence and reduced regulatory concerns; proactive risk management maximizes the likelihood that an enterprise’s objectives will be achieved, thereby enabling organizational success. This work methodically considers the risks and opportunities that an enterprise taking their applications or services onto the cloud must consider to obtain the cost reductions and service velocity improvements they desire without suffering the consequences of unacceptable user service quality.

Download or read book Cloud Computing written by Jared Carstensen and published by IT Governance Ltd. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will enable you to: understand the different types of Cloud and know which is the right one for your business have realistic expectations of what a Cloud service can give you, and enable you to manage it in the way that suits your business minimise potential disruption by successfully managing the risks and threats make appropriate changes to your business in order to seize opportunities offered by Cloud set up an effective governance system and benefit from the consequential cost savings and reductions in expenditure understand the legal implications of international data protection and privacy laws, and protect your business against falling foul of such laws know how Cloud can benefit your business continuity and disaster recovery planning.

Download or read book Survey on Cloud Computing Security Risk Assessment written by Ishraga khogali and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Informatik - Allgemeines, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Cloud computing is a new computing technology which has attracted much attention. Unfortunately, it is a risk prone technology since users are sharing remote computing resources, data is held remotely, and clients lack of control over data. Therefore, assessing security risk of cloud is important to establish trust and to increase the level of confidence of cloud service consumers and provide cost effective and reliable service and infrastructure of cloud providers. This paper provides a survey on the state of the art research on risk assessment in the cloud environment.

Download or read book CompTIA Security Study Guide written by Emmett Dulaney and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join over 250,000 IT professionals who've earned Security+certification If you're an IT professional hoping to progress in your career,then you know that the CompTIA Security+ exam is one of the mostvaluable certifications available. Since its introduction in 2002,over a quarter million professionals have achieved Security+certification, itself a springboard to prestigious certificationslike the CASP, CISSP, and CISA. The CompTIA Security+ StudyGuide: SY0-401 covers 100% of the Security+ exam objectives,with clear and concise information on crucial security topics. You'll find everything you need to prepare for the 2014 versionof the Security+ certification exam, including insight fromindustry experts on a wide range of IT security topics. Readersalso get access to a robust set of learning tools, featuringelectronic flashcards, assessment tests, robust practice testenvironment, with hundreds of practice questions, and electronicflashcards. CompTIA authorized and endorsed Includes updates covering the latest changes to the exam,including better preparation for real-world applications Covers key topics like network security, compliance andoperational security, threats and vulnerabilities, access controland identity management, and cryptography Employs practical examples and insights to provide real-worldcontext from two leading certification experts Provides the necessary tools to take that first important steptoward advanced security certs like CASP, CISSP, and CISA, inaddition to satisfying the DoD's 8570 directive If you're serious about jump-starting your security career, youneed the kind of thorough preparation included in the CompTIASecurity+ Study Guide: SY0-401.

Download or read book Security and Risk Analysis for Intelligent Cloud Computing written by Ajay Kumar and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book is a compilation of scholarly articles on the latest developments in the field of AI, Blockchain, and ML/DL in cloud security. This book is designed for security and risk assessment professionals, and to help undergraduate, postgraduate students, research scholars, academicians, and technology professionals who are interested in learning practical approaches to cloud security. It covers practical strategies for assessing the security and privacy of cloud infrastructure and applications and shows how to make cloud infrastructure secure to combat threats and attacks, and prevent data breaches. The chapters are designed with a granular framework, starting with the security concepts, followed by hands-on assessment techniques based on real-world studies. Readers will gain detailed information on cloud computing security that—until now—has been difficult to access. This book: • Covers topics such as AI, Blockchain, and ML/DL in cloud security. • Presents several case studies revealing how threat actors abuse and exploit cloud environments to spread threats. • Explains the privacy aspects you need to consider in the cloud, including how they compare with aspects considered in traditional computing models. • Examines security delivered as a service—a different facet of cloud security.

Download or read book System Support for Managing Risk in Cloud Computing Platforms written by Supreeth Shastri and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cloud platforms sell computing to applications for a price. However, by precisely defining and controlling the service-level characteristics of cloud servers, they expose applications to a number of implicit risks throughout the application's lifecycle. For example, user's request for a server may be denied, leading to rejection risk; an allocated resource may be withdrawn, resulting in revocation risk; an acquired cloud server's price may rise relative to others, causing price risk; a cloud server's performance may vary due to external factors, triggering valuation risk. Though these risks are implicit, the costs they bear on the applications are not. While some risks exist in all Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings, they are most pronounced in an emerging category called transient cloud servers. Since transient servers are carved out of instantaneous idle cloud capacity, they exhibit two distinct features: (i) revocations that are intentional, frequent and come with advanced warning, and (ii) prices that are low in average but vary across time and location. Thus, despite enabling inexpensive access to at-scale computing, transient cloud servers expose applications to risks, the scale of which were unseen in the past platforms. Unfortunately, the current generation system software are not designed to handle these risks, which in turn results in inconsistent performances, unexpected failures, missed savings, and slower adoption. In this dissertation, we elevate risk management to a first-class system design principle. Our goal is to identify the risks, quantify their costs, and explicitly manage them for applications deployed on cloud platforms. Towards that goal, we adapt and extend concepts from finance and economics to propose a new system design approach called financializing cloud computing. By treating cloud resources as investments, and by quantifying the cost of their risks, financialization enables system software to manage the risk-reward trade-offs, explicitly and autonomously. We demonstrate the utility of our approach via four contributions: (i) mitigating revocation risk with insurance policy, (ii) reducing price risk through active trading, (iii) eliminating uncertainty risk by index tracking, and (iv) minimizing server's valuation risk via asset pricing. We conclude by observing that diversity and asymmetry in the creation and consumption of cloud compute resources is on the rise, and that financialization can be effectively employed to manage its complexity and risks.

Download or read book Project Risk Management written by Kurt J. Engemann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing risk is essential for every organization. However, significant opportunities may be lost by concentrating on the negative aspects of risk without bearing in mind the positive attributes. The objective of Project Risk Management: Managing Software Development Risk is to provide a distinct approach to a broad range of risks and rewards associated with the design, development, implementation and deployment of software systems. The traditional perspective of software development risk is to view risk as a negative characteristic associated with the impact of potential threats. The perspective of this book is to explore a more discerning view of software development risks, including the positive aspects of risk associated with potential beneficial opportunities. A balanced approach requires that software project managers approach negative risks with a view to reduce the likelihood and impact on a software project, and approach positive risks with a view to increase the likelihood of exploiting opportunities. Project Risk Management: Managing Software Development Risk explores software development risk both from a technological and business perspective. Issues regarding strategies for software development are discussed and topics including risks related to technical performance, outsourcing, cybersecurity, scheduling, quality, costs, opportunities and competition are presented. Bringing together concepts across the broad spectrum of software engineering with a project management perspective, this volume represents both a professional and scholarly perspective on the topic.

Download or read book CompTIA Security Deluxe Study Guide written by Emmett Dulaney and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some copies of CompTIA Security+ Deluxe Study Guide: Exam SY0-501 (9781119416852) were printed without discount exam vouchers in the front of the books. If you did not receive a discount exam voucher with your book, please visit http://media.wiley.com/product_ancillary/5X/11194168/DOWNLOAD/CompTIA_Coupon.pdf to download one. To complement the CompTIA Security+ Study Guide: Exam SY0-501, 7e, and the CompTIA Security+ Deluxe Study Guide: Exam SY0-501, 4e, look at CompTIA Security+ Practice Tests: Exam Sy0-501 (9781119416920). Practical, concise, and complete—the ultimate CompTIA Security+ prep CompTIA Security+ Deluxe Study Guide, Fourth Edition is the ultimate preparation resource for Exam SY0-501. Fully updated to cover 100% of the latest exam, this book is packed with essential information on critical security concepts including architecture and design, attacks and vulnerabilities, identity and access management, cryptography and PKI, risk management, and more. Real-world examples allow you to practice your skills and apply your knowledge in situations you'll encounter on the job, while insights from a security expert provide wisdom based on years of experience. The Sybex online learning environment allows you to study anytime, anywhere, with access to eBooks in multiple formats, glossary of key terms, flashcards, and more. Take the pre-assessment test to more efficiently focus your study time, and gauge your progress along the way with hundreds of practice questions that show you what to expect on the exam. The CompTIA Security+ certification is your first step toward a highly in-demand skillset. Fully approved and endorsed by CompTIA, this guide contains everything you need for complete and comprehensive preparation. Master 100% of the objectives for the new Exam SY0-501 Apply your knowledge to examples based on real-world scenarios Understand threats, vulnerabilities, cryptography, system security, and more Access an online preparation toolkit so you can study on the go A CompTIA Security+ certification says that you have the knowledge and skills to secure applications, networks, and devices; analyze and respond to threats; participate in risk mitigation, and much more. Employers are desperately searching for people like you, and the demand will only continue to grow. CompTIA Security+ Deluxe Study Guide, Fourth Edition gives you the thorough preparation you need to clear the exam and get on with your career.

Download or read book Collaboration with Cloud Computing written by Ric Messier and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collaboration with Cloud Computing discusses the risks associated with implementing these technologies across the enterprise and provides you with expert guidance on how to manage risk through policy changes and technical solutions. Drawing upon years of practical experience and using numerous examples and case studies, author Ric Messier discusses: - The evolving nature of information security - The risks, rewards, and security considerations when implementing SaaS, cloud computing and VoIP - Social media and security risks in the enterprise - The risks and rewards of allowing remote connectivity and accessibility to the enterprise network - Discusses the risks associated with technologies such as social media, voice over IP (VoIP) and cloud computing and provides guidance on how to manage that risk through policy changes and technical solutions - Presents a detailed look at the risks and rewards associated with cloud computing and storage as well as software as a service (SaaS) and includes pertinent case studies - Explores the risks associated with the use of social media to the enterprise network - Covers the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, including policy considerations and technical requirements

Download or read book Above the Clouds written by Kevin T. McDonald and published by IT Governance Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book acts as a primer and strategic guide to identify Cloud Computing best practices and associated risks, and reduce the latter to acceptable levels. From software as a service (SaaP) to replacing the entire IT infrastructure, the author serves as an educator, guide and strategist, from runway to getting the organization above the clouds.

Download or read book Risk Management in Software Development Projects written by John McManus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very few software projects are completed on time, on budget, and to their original specification causing the global IT software industry to lose billions each year in project overruns and reworking software. Research supports that projects usually fail because of management mistakes rather than technical mistakes. Risk Management in Software Development Projects focuses on what the practitioner needs to know about risk in the pursuit of delivering software projects. Risk Management in Software Development Projects will help all practicing IT Project Managers and IT Managers understand: * Key components of the risk management process * Current processes and best practices for software risk identification * Techniques of risk analysis * Risk Planning * Management processes and be able to develop the process for various organizations

Download or read book IT Security Risk Management of Cloud Computing Services in Critical Infrastructures written by Michael Adelmeyer and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lean Computing for the Cloud written by Eric Bauer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applies lean manufacturing principles across the cloud service delivery chain to enable application and infrastructure service providers to sustainably achieve the shortest lead time, best quality, and value Applies lean thinking across the cloud service delivery chain to recognize and minimize waste Leverages lessons learned from electric power industry operations to operations of cloud infrastructure Applies insights from just-in-time inventory management to operation of cloud based applications Explains how traditional, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and Enhanced Telecom Operation Map (eTOM) capacity management evolves to lean computing for the cloud

Download or read book The Cloud Adoption Playbook written by Moe Abdula and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential roadmaps for enterprise cloud adoption As cloud technologies continue to challenge the fundamental understanding of how businesses work, smart companies are moving quickly to adapt to a changing set of rules. Adopting the cloud requires a clear roadmap backed by use cases, grounded in practical real-world experience, to show the routes to successful adoption. The Cloud Adoption Playbook helps business and technology leaders in enterprise organizations sort through the options and make the best choices for accelerating cloud adoption and digital transformation. Written by a team of IBM technical executives with a wealth of real-world client experience, this book cuts through the hype, answers your questions, and helps you tailor your cloud adoption and digital transformation journey to the needs of your organization. This book will help you: Discover how the cloud can fulfill major business needs Adopt a standardized Cloud Adoption Framework and understand the key dimensions of cloud adoption and digital transformation Learn how cloud adoption impacts culture, architecture, security, and more Understand the roles of governance, methodology, and how the cloud impacts key players in your organization. Providing a collection of winning plays, championship advice, and real-world examples of successful adoption, this playbook is your ultimate resource for making the cloud work. There has never been a better time to adopt the cloud. Cloud solutions are more numerous and accessible than ever before, and evolving technology is making the cloud more reliable, more secure, and more necessary than ever before. Don’t let your organization be left behind! The Cloud Adoption Playbook gives you the essential guidance you need to make the smart choices that reduce your organizational risk and accelerate your cloud adoption and digital transformation.

Download or read book Practical Cloud Security written by Chris Dotson and published by O'Reilly Media. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their rapidly changing architecture and API-driven automation, cloud platforms come with unique security challenges and opportunities. This hands-on book guides you through security best practices for multivendor cloud environments, whether your company plans to move legacy on-premises projects to the cloud or build a new infrastructure from the ground up. Developers, IT architects, and security professionals will learn cloud-specific techniques for securing popular cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and IBM Cloud. Chris Dotson—an IBM senior technical staff member—shows you how to establish data asset management, identity and access management, vulnerability management, network security, and incident response in your cloud environment.

Download or read book Cloud Security and Privacy written by Tim Mather and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2009-09-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You may regard cloud computing as an ideal way for your company to control IT costs, but do you know how private and secure this service really is? Not many people do. With Cloud Security and Privacy, you'll learn what's at stake when you trust your data to the cloud, and what you can do to keep your virtual infrastructure and web applications secure. Ideal for IT staffers, information security and privacy practitioners, business managers, service providers, and investors alike, this book offers you sound advice from three well-known authorities in the tech security world. You'll learn detailed information on cloud computing security that-until now-has been sorely lacking. Review the current state of data security and storage in the cloud, including confidentiality, integrity, and availability Learn about the identity and access management (IAM) practice for authentication, authorization, and auditing of the users accessing cloud services Discover which security management frameworks and standards are relevant for the cloud Understand the privacy aspects you need to consider in the cloud, including how they compare with traditional computing models Learn the importance of audit and compliance functions within the cloud, and the various standards and frameworks to consider Examine security delivered as a service-a different facet of cloud security

Download or read book Security and Risk Analysis for Intelligent Cloud Computing written by Ajay and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This edited book is a compilation of scholarly articles on the latest developments in the field of AI, Blockchain, ML/DL in cloud security. This book is designed for security and risk assessment professionals to help the students of undergraduate, postgraduate and research scholars, academicians, and technology professionals. Who are interested in learning practical approaches to cloud security. It covers practical strategies or assessing the security and privacy of cloud infrastructure and applications and shows how to make cloud infrastructure secure to combat threats, attacks, and prevent data breaches. The chapters are designed with a granular framework, starting with the security concepts, followed by hand-on assessment techniques based on real-world studies. Users will learn detailed information on cloud computing security that-until now-has been sorely lacking. The book has following features: Includes practical strategies for assessing the security and privacy of cloud infrastructure and applications Covers topics such as AI, Blockchain, ML/DL in cloud security. Presents several case studies revealing how threat actors abuse and exploit cloud environments to spread threats Understand the privacy aspects you need to consider in the cloud, including how they compare with traditional computing models Examine security delivered as a service-a different facet of cloud security"--