Investigating the Security and Privacy Issues of Cloud Services - A Case Study of Amazon EC2 and Dropbox Cloud Services

Amazon EC2 and Dropbox are some of the major cloud services that have been riddled with vulnerability issues in recent times. This work explores and evaluate these giant cloud services and analyze their vulnerabilities and the impacts they proffer on individuals and businesses in terms of data security and privacy. It probes into the existing mitigation methods that have been proposed and are being implemented on the services. It tests to see if these methods will hold out, and it finally proposes new and better ways of suppressing these vulnerabilities.

About the author

Nasir Bala Muhammad is most passionate about Information Technology and he is more particularly interested in the security and privacy issues of IT systems. Nasir had a Bachelors in Computer Science and a Masters in Computer and Network Security. Nasir can be contacted and more titles of his works could be found through LinkedIn.

Product details

• Authors: Nasir Bala Muhammad
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2015
• EAN: 9783659464461
• ISBN: 978-3-659-46446-1
• No. of pages: 132
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 220 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 192 g
• Subjects: Guides; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing