Presenter(s): Dr. Ragib Hasan
Date: 2011-12-20
Cloud computing has become the dominant computing model in recent
years. The flexibility and cost savings made possible through
migration to a cloud have encouraged many companies to use clouds for
their critical applications. Unfortunately, today's clouds have major
security issues related to the confidentiality, integrity,
availability, and privacy of the data and applications outsourced to
the cloud. Multi-tenancy and other inherent properties of the cloud
computing model have introduced novel attack surfaces and threats.
Clouds and their clients are also the target of new types of attacks
that threaten their trustworthiness, reliability, and economic
sustainability. Unless these issues are resolved, clouds cannot and
should not be used for sensitive data such as financial transactions
or medical records.
In this talk, I will discuss the major security issues in cloud
computing, and present an overview of open problems. By systematically
exploring the state of the art in cloud computing security, I will
formulate the key security research questions that we need to resolve
before cloud computing can become mainstream. Finally, I will
highlight some unexplored research areas in cloud security and also
discuss some fundamental shortcomings of current approaches to cloud
security research .
SPEAKER BIO:
Dr. Ragib Hasan is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the
Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of
Alabama at Birmingham. With a key focus on practical computer security
problems, Dr. Hasan is the founder of the SECuRE and Trustworthy
Computing Lab (SECRETLab) at UAB. He is also a member of the UAB
Center for Information Assurance and Joint Forensics Research.
Dr. Hasan's research interest falls in the general area of data
security, with emphasis on trustworthy data history, provenance, and
accountability for cloud computing, file systems, and databases. He is
also interested in mobile malware, secure social networking,
trustworthy location based services, and secure medical devices. Dr.
Hasan is the designer of one of the very first graduate level courses
on cloud computing security and privacy (http://bit.ly/uabcloudsec),
which he has taught at JHU and UAB over the last few years.
Prior to joining UAB in Fall 2011, Dr. Hasan was an NSF/CRA Computing
Innovation Fellow and Assistant Research Scientist at the Department
of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University. He received his Ph.D.
and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana
Champaign in October, 2009, and December, 2005, respectively. Before
that, he received a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering and
graduated summa cum laude from Bangladesh University of Engineering
and Technology in 2003. He is a recipient of the 2011 Google Faculty
Research Award,
2009 NSF Computing Innovation Fellowship and the 2003 Chancellor Award
and Gold Medal from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.
Website: http://www.ragibhasan.com
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