The Little Book of Cloud Computing Security, 2012 Edition

by Lars Nielsen

Using an approach geared toward non-techies, noted systems developer Lars Nielsen explains the state-of-the-art (and the state of the industry) in Cloud Computing Security.

In a concise 18,000 words, Nielsen describes tested, effective strategies for bulletproofing various types of Cloud implementations ... surveys the range of sometimes-competitive organizations working to build an industry-standard model for Cloud Security ... examines the robustness of each of today's leading Cloud service providers vis-a-vis security issues ... and details the offerings of firms specializing in security tools, services and consulting for Cloud implementers.

Nielsen gives special attention to the very latest offerings and partnerships on the Cloud Security landscape. These include:

* Trend Micro's New "Smarter" Initiative for 2012

* The New HP-Microsoft Hybrid Cloud for Regulated Enterprises

* The New IBM Security Systems Division, incorporating Q1 Labs and SmartCloud

* The New Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) for vendors wishing to provide Cloud services to governmental agencies

* and much more.




CONTENTS

Introduction

1. Rudiments

2. Cloud Security Alliance, the CSA GRK Stack, and STAR

3. Open Data Center Alliance (and Cooperation with CSA, Green Grid)

4. Cloud Standards Customer Council and the Question: Which Standards Organization Will Prevail?

5. Accenture Security Solutions

6. GoldKey

7. Trend Micro SecureCloud, Smart Protection Network and the New "Smarter" Initiative for 2012

8. Cisco Cloud Security Solutions

9. EMC, Intel, and the Gazzang ezNcrypt for MySQL Databases

10. The New HP-Microsoft Hybrid Cloud for Regulated Enterprises, the HP Cloud Protection Program, and Other Things That Go Bump in the Dark

11. Security re: Salesforce.com, Amazon Web Services/EC2, and Rackspace

12. The New IBM Security Systems Division, Including Q1 Labs and SmartCloud

13. SOA App Gateways from Layer 7 Technologies, Vordel, IBM, Forum Systems, Tibco, Bee Ware and Others

14. VMware Security Solutions, Including Key Partnerships with Trend Micro, RSA and HP

15. Wrapping Up: Google, Oracle

16. Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP)




ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lars Nielsen has more than thirty years experience as a systems developer and administrator for a range of Fortune 500 companies. Nielsen is also the author of New Street's popular COMPUTING: A BUSINESS HISTORY and the bestselling LITTLE BOOK OF CLOUD COMPUTING. He resides in Amsterdam.

Genres: Nonfiction

70 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 11, 2011

Reviews

[Kapileshwar Patil · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is the very best book

[Rick · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a decent overview of the services out there, in one way. LIke it's good to sort of get your head around what Red Hat or VMWare is offering, and I have to say, Windows Azure seemed strangely kind of awesome. But in another way it's not particularly useful. Like it doesn't really help you understand what you can DO in the cloud, except only in abstract terms. But really its biggest failing is its over-reliance on PR releases and quotes. It feels very cobbled together. And then it sort of advertises that it was updated in the wake of the amazon crash, but all it really did was tell you there was a crash, so, hey, watch out!

I dunno, it's probably me. I am looking for a specific type of cloud computing book, but everything I can find is either too zeitgeisty, academic, or "move your business into the cloud" ish. This one is mostly the latter.

[Josh · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is largely a compilation of what cloud service vendors say about themselves. It's useful in the sense that the author has taken the trouble to identify the services and piece together their collateral. It makes no attempt to evaluate the strengths, weaknesses or appropriate uses of the different approaches or of cloud computing as a whole.

[John · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you want a general non technical overview of what popular public clouds have to offer and don't feel like googling them one at a time... then this is the book for you.

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good overview.