Research on Privacy and Security Issues in Cloud Computing

Dear Colleagues,

Cloud computing underpins today’s digital economy by enabling elastic computing, storage, and AI-driven services at a global scale. As workloads migrate to public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments—and extend to edge–cloud federations—privacy and security risks are amplified by shared infrastructures, complex supply chains, and cross-border data flows. Adversaries now exploit misconfigurations, side channels, software supply chain weaknesses, and AI-assisted attack tooling, while organizations must comply with evolving regulations for data protection, residency, and sovereignty. This Special Issue, “Research on Privacy and Security Issues in Cloud Computing,” seeks original research and practice-driven insights that advance end-to-end protections, from cryptographic foundations and confidential computing to secure orchestration, identity, operations, and compliance evidence. We especially welcome reproducible artifacts, comparative evaluations, and studies that illuminate trade-offs among security, privacy, availability, dependency, and usability.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Confidential computing, TEEs, and remote attestation in cloud/edge.
• Zero-trust architectures, identity, access control, and federation.
• Privacy-preserving data analytics and machine learning (FL, DP, HE, MPC).
• Secure orchestration for containers, Kubernetes, or serverless.
• Multi-cloud, hybrid, and edge–cloud security, data sovereignty, and residency.
• Secure data sharing, data quality assurance, and lifecycle governance.
• Threat detection, incident response, and forensics at cloud scale.
• Side-channel and microarchitectural defenses in shared hardware.
• Supply chain security, SBOMs, and provenance in cloud services.
• Trust mechanisms for cross-departmental/regional data collaboration/sharing.

Prof. Dr. Kun She
Dr. Kai Zeng
Guest Editors

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