Assured Cloud Computing

Explores key challenges and solutions to assured cloud computing today and provides a provocative look at the face of cloud computing tomorrow

This book offers readers a comprehensive suite of solutions for resolving many of the key challenges to achieving high levels of assurance in cloud computing. The distillation of critical research findings generated by the Assured Cloud Computing Center of Excellence (ACC-UCoE) of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, it provides unique insights into the current and future shape of robust, dependable, and secure cloud-based computing and data cyberinfrastructures.

A survivable and distributed cloud-computing-based infrastructure can enable the configuration of any dynamic systems-of-systems that contain both trusted and partially trusted resources and services sourced from multiple organizations. To assure mission-critical computations and workflows that rely on such systems-of-systems it is necessary to ensure that a given configuration does not violate any security or reliability requirements. Furthermore, it is necessary to model the trustworthiness of a workflow or computation fulfillment to a high level of assurance. In presenting the substance of the work done by the ACC-UCoE, this book provides a vision for assured cloud computing illustrating how individual research contributions relate to each other and to the big picture of assured cloud computing. In addition, the book:

• Explores dominant themes in cloud-based systems, including design correctness, support for big data and analytics, monitoring and detection, network considerations, and performance
• Synthesizes heavily cited earlier work on topics such as DARE, trust mechanisms, and elastic graphs, as well as newer research findings on topics, including R-Storm, and RAMP transactions
• Addresses assured cloud computing concerns such as game theory, stream processing, storage, algorithms, workflow, scheduling, access control, formal analysis of safety, and streaming

Roy Campbell, PhD, is Associate Dean for Information Technology in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also the Director of Assured Cloud Computing at the University Center of Excellence.

Charles Kamhoua, PhD, is a researcher at the US Army Research Laboratory's Network Security Branch. He managed the US Air Force's Assured Cloud Computing-University Center of Excellence at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

Kevin A. Kwiat is a retired Principal Computer Engineer for the US Air Force Research Laboratory, Cyber Assurance Branch. Currently he is co-leading Haloed Sun TEK, LLC, in Sarasota, Florida.