PPCloud 2011 - PPCloud 2011: Privacy and Provenance in the Cloud

PPCloud 2011: Privacy and Provenance in the Cloud

Website: http://ppcloud.org/

Summary: Clouds enable customers to reduce startup costs, amortize operating costs and increase the flexibility of their services through the on-demand acquisition of infrastructure and services. While the cloud presents a compelling and generally attractive scenario, understanding the privacy risks and developing efficient and effective solutions are critical for its success. In tension with the need for privacy, is provenance - that is, the need to know who created or is responsible for a piece of data, through whose hands it has passed, who has modified it (or if). Privacy and, more recently, provenance are both current challenges in cloud computing. The balance between the conflicting requirements of privacy and provenance is a significant challenge for future cloud research. The workshop will cover topics related to practical or theoretical aspects of privacy and/or provenance in cloud computing.