SANS InfoSec Reading Room - Cloud Computing

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Featuring 4 papers as of May 19, 2013

An Introduction To Securing a Cloud Environment

By: Todd Steiner (posted on November 27, 2012)

As government and private industry budgets continue to shrink, executives are plotting new strategies to become more efficient and cost effective.

Diskless Cluster Computing: Security Benefit of oneSIS and Git

By: Aron Warren (posted on April 16, 2012)

This paper introduces the joining of two software packages, oneSIS and Git. Each package by itself is meant to tackle only a certain class of problem.

Cloud Computing - Maze in the Haze

By: Godha Iyengar (posted on October 18, 2011)

In recent days, “Cloud Computing” has become a great topic of debate in the IT field. Clouds, like solar panels, appear intriguingly simple at first but the details turn out to be more complex than simple pictures and schematics suggest.

Following Incidents into the Cloud

By: Jeff Reed (posted on March 1, 2011)

The availability and use of cloud computing continues to grow. Discussions of and references to its benefits and issues grow at a similar pace. As it continues to move from a sort of ‘SOA of the Wild West’ into the mainstream, more companies will face the myriad questions arising from its use. When, why, where and how should integration with the cloud occur? How can one be certain that a cloud provider will survive through an organization’s technology integration lifecycle?