Chapter 1

Cloud security ecosystem

Ryan K.L. Koa; Kim-Kwang Raymond Choob    a University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealandb Information Assurance Research Group, School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

Abstract

This chapter introduces the reader to the initial developments of the cloud computing industry, consolidated cloud-related terminologies, and concepts, and explains the main reasons and causes of the cloud security and privacy concerns.

Keywords

Cloud security ecosystem

Cloud security

Cloud data privacy

Cloud computing

Cloud computing (Ko, 2010) may be the most important information technology (IT) innovation of the twenty-first century, and it is now common to ...

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