Introduction to Secure Cloud Computing Minitrack

Cloud Computing offers SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS as cost effective ways of doing computation. The recent rapid deployment of Cloud Computing comes with a cost that can leave users open to vulnerabilities such as: Disruptions that may shutdown 24x7 computation availability of essential services since the concentration of government and or multiple businesses resources at a single site is a convenient target for effective cyber-terrorist attacks; Possible theft of Cloud resident software Intellectual Property and confidential Personal Information; and the unwarranted invasions of user data privacy. While this mini-track cannot adequately cover all of the issues with respect to "Secure Cloud Computing," the presentations of the following five papers will address several of them.