Paper presentation on cloud computing By

M.Mohammed Ishak Noor & Yasser Arafat

Dept of electronic sciences

What is Cloud Computing?

Basically an Internet-based network Made up of large numbers of servers Contain vast amounts of information Users only care about the service or information, not about the underlying details

History of Cloud computing

1960 - John McCarthy came into commercial use around the turn of the 21st century 2007 saw increased activity, including Google, IBM It was a hot topic by mid-2008 and numerous cloud computing events had been scheduled.

How does cloud computing work?

Seven Technical Security Benefits of Cloud computing

1.Centralized Data
Reduced Data Leakage The data landmines of today could be greatly reduced by the Cloud Monitoring benefits central storage is easier to control and monitor

2. Incident Response / Forensics

Forensic readiness Decrease evidence acquisition time Eliminate or reduce service downtime Decrease evidence transfer time Eliminate forensic image verification time Decrease time to access protected documents

3. Password assurance testing

Decrease password cracking time you can use Cloud Compute to decrease crack time Keep cracking activities to dedicated machines password cracker to spread the load across non-production machines

4. Logging
Unlimited, pay per drink storage Improve log indexing and search Getting compliant with Extended logging

5. Improve the state of security software

Drive vendors to create more efficient security software Billable CPU cycles get noticed. More attention will be paid to inefficient processes Security vendors that understand how to squeeze the most performance from their software will win

6. Secure builds
Pre-hardened, change control builds Reduce exposure through patching offline Easier to test impact of security changes

7. Security Testing
Reduce cost of testing security More attention will be paid to inefficient processes Security vendors that understand how to squeeze the most performance from their software will win.

Any queries ???

A presentation by
M.Mohammed Ishak Noor (IInd yr M.Sc Soft.engg.) & Yasser Arafat ( IInd yr M.sc Comp.tech)

Dept of electronic sciences