CyberBAT: High Performance Cloud Auditing and Applications

ABSTRACT

Cloud computing represents one of the most significant shifts in information technology due to its scalable, flexible, and cost-efficient access to computing resources. There are persistent concerns about security, availability and performance of cloud services. Cloud auditing is an urgent cloud computing research topic to resolve these concerns. The main objective of this research is to present the concepts, algorithms, techniques and components of high performance cloud auditing systems in order to reduce cloud security risks, and increase availability and the performance of cloud computing for surviving in a contested network environment. CyberBAT team’s cloud research focuses on the emerging cloud auditing challenges and issues to manipulate massive and multimodal data management and access control for rapid response in heterogeneous and hybrid cloud computing environments including Android smartphone cloud auditing.

This presentation briefly introduces the CyberBAT team’s cloud research areas as follows:

  • Surveys and Future Issues: Cloud Computing, Cloud Security, Cloud Auditing
  • Cloud Management: QoS, Service Level Agreements at Different Levels, Service Level Management, Availability Management, Capacity Management, Semantic Cloud Computing, Data Sharing and Management
  • Cloud Auditing:  Cloud Audit Data Collection Techniques, Monitoring and Characterization, Emerging Cloud Threat Analysis, Information Theoretic Data Analytics and Visualization for Cloud Auditing, Information Metrics for Decision Making, Heavy-Tailed Distribution Analysis, Inference Theory, Information Fusion, Android Smartphone Security
  • High Performance Computing and Communication for Cloud Auditing: GP-GPU Computing, Hadoop based Distributed Computing, MapReduce, I/O virtualization for Storage/Network/Accelerators, Storage and network I/O subsystems in Hybrid Cloud Environments, Fast and Reliable Data Transfer
  • Assured Cloud Auditing Architecture, Cross-Sites Auditing Mechanism (server/router/clients), Reliability, Fault-Tolerance, Privacy Protection and Security, Cloud Audit Data Storage, and Secure and Efficient Sharing for Rapid Response