Secure Cloud Computing Infrastructures
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 January 2026) | Viewed by 5450
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As concerns regarding cybersecurity increase, so does the need to collect evidence of security and privacy guarantees. This demand has fostered research on various approaches and technologies for implementing trustworthy infrastructure. Nevertheless, in cloud computing environments, where a provider manages a complex stack of software that reduces costs and eases operation for its tenants, this is a significant challenge. Vulnerabilities in the underlying infrastructure can compromise even carefully implemented applications. This Special Issue aims to share results and novel ideas on designing, evaluating, and applying techniques that enable secure cloud computing infrastructures.
An example of a related topic is the advent of trusted execution environments (TEEs). TEEs enable confidential computing and can potentially take security in cloud computing to the next level, isolating the user workloads from a compromised host. Still, there are many challenges in hardware and software for confidential computing. For example, deploying an application in a confidential VM does not comply with the confidential computing threat model (e.g., the application may naively use storage services controlled by the cloud provider). Therefore, the challenges in secure cloud infrastructure extend to other areas of secure infrastructure, including limitations, usability, new threats, performance and cost impacts, interoperability, supply chain security, and so on.
This Special Issue welcomes original research papers in the following intersecting fields:
- Cloud, edge, and fog computing;
- Parallel and distributed computing;
- Hardware architectures;
- Privacy-preserving artificial intelligence and machine learning;
- Verification and validation.
Prof. Dr. Andrey Brito
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- trusted platforms and trustworthy infrastructures
- confidential computing and its limitations
- trusted execution environments
- attestation and interoperability
- formal verification
- validation and performance evaluation of trusted hardware
- supply chain security
- threat analysis
- abstractions and runtimes
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