Security and privacy in the clouds: a bird's eye view

Wolter Pieters

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-0641-5_21

Security and privacy in the clouds: a bird's eye view

Wolter Pieters

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Abstract

Over the last years, something called "cloud computing" has become a major theme in computer science and information security. Essentially, it concerns delivering information technology as a service, by enabling the renting of soft-ware, computing power and storage. In this contribution, we give a high-level overview of the issues that the emergence of cloud computing as a paradigm raises, both from a computer science and a philosophical perspective. We discuss 1) the ideal and limitations of encrypted data processing, 2) the necessity of simu-lating physical constraints in virtualised infrastructures, 3) the personal equivalent of cloud computing in the form of outsourced identity, and 4) the possibilities for connecting policy and technical level issues by means of a new ethical approach, called informational precaution.

Original language	Undefined
Title of host publication	Computers, Privacy and Data Protection: an Element of Choice
Editors	Serge Gutwirth, Yves Poullet, Paul De Hert, Ronald Leenes
Place of Publication	Dordrecht
Publisher	Springer
Pages	445-457
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Print)	978-94-007-0640-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0641-5_21
Publication status	Published - 2011

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Name
Publisher	Springer

Keywords

METIS-279144
Cloud computing
IR-76456
virtualisation
EWI-19837
outsourced identity
encrypted processing
Security
SCS-Cybersecurity
informational precaution

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10.1007/978-94-007-0641-5_21

http://eprints.eemcs.utwente.nl/secure2/19837/01/Pieters_CPDP2010_SPCC_revised.pdf

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