Security and Privacy Architecture for Cloud Computing

Dear Colleagues,

Cloud computing is a promising architecture in the current computing systems with many benefits such as collaboration, agility, scalability, availability, cost reduction potential, and computing efficiency. However, there are also some significant barriers to adoption. One of the most significant barriers to adoption is security and privacy.

There have been efforts to enhance cloud computing security and privacy in diverse aspects such as resilient cloud computing architecture, data encryption and anonymization, zero-trust, cloud network infrastructure, obfuscated cloud data structures, and so on. However, these new technologies sometimes give rise to new risks, or drawbacks, as a trade-off. Issues related to security and privacy architecture are one of the main concerns in today’s era of “cloud computing”. Thus, it is necessary to explore diverse security and privacy issues for secure cloud computing architecture to assure a high security level in our applications, transactions, data processing, and decision management in the cloud.

This Special Issue will focus on (but is not limited to) the following topics:

• security, integrity, and privacy for cloud computing
• secure cloud architecture and services
• data encryption, obfuscation, differential privacy of cloud data
• resilient cloud architecture and service against side-channel attacks
• secure virtualization of cloud computing system
• zero trust architecture in cloud computing
• real-time attack detection in cloud computing

Prof. Dr. Junbeom Hur
Guest Editor

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