SPCC 2014 - 5th International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Cloud computing

Cloud computing represents today’s most exciting computing paradigm shift in information technology. By moving data and computing services to the large data centers, cloud promises to provide unprecedented benefits like ubiquitous network access, rapid resource elasticity, minimal management overhead, etc. However, its unique attributes also raise many security and privacy challenges in areas such as data security, privacy, recovery, access control, trusted computing, as well as legal issues like regulatory compliance and auditing, where the management of the data and services are not fully trustworthy. Due to the fundamental paradigm shift in cloud, many security concerns have to be better understood, unanticipated vulnerabilities identified, and viable solutions to critical threats devised, before the wide cloud deployment can take place. This workshop aims to bring together research efforts from both the academia and industry. We encourage submissions on theoretical, practical, as well as experimental studies related to all aspects of security and privacy in cloud computing. Topics of interests include (but are not limited to) the following topic categories:
Secure cloud architecture
Cloud access control and key management
Identification and privacy in cloud
Computation over encrypted data
Integrity assurance for data outsourcing
Software and data segregation security
Secure management of virtualized resources
Joint security and privacy aware protocol design
Failure detection and prediction
Secure data management within and across data centers
Trusted computing technology and clouds
Availability, recovery and auditing
Integrity and verifiable computation
Secure mobile cloud
Authors are invited to submit either Research Papers or Position Papers or both. Position Papers that define new problems in cloud computing security or provide visions and clarifications of cloud computing security are solicited. Regular Research Papers that present novel research results on security and privacy in cloud computing, and Short Research Papers that describe work-in-progress ideas are also welcome. Research Papers and Position Papers will be reviewed separately.