Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to the cloud and fundamental security and privacy issues of the cloud / Hassan Takabi, Mohammad GhasemiGol -- Infrastructure cloud security / Mohammad GhasemiGol -- Confidentiality of data in the cloud : conflicts between security and cost / Nathalie Baracaldo, Joseph Glider -- Access control in cloud IaaS / Yun Zhang, Ram Krishnan, Farhan Patwa, Ravi Sandhu -- Cloud security and privacy management / Patrick Kamongi -- Hacking and countermeasures in the cloud / Farzaneh Abazari, Hassan Takabi, Morteza Analoui -- Risk management and disaster recovery in the cloud / Saman Zonouz -- Cloud auditing and compliance / Paolina Centonze -- Security as a service (SaaS) in the cloud / Saman Taghavi Zargar, Hassan Takabi, Jay Iyer -- Cloud forensics : model, challenges and approaches / Lei Chen, Nhien-An Le-Khac, Sebastian Schlepphorst, Lanchuan Xu -- Cyberterrorism in the cloud : through a glass darkly / Barry Cartwright, George R. S. Weir, Richard Frank -- Digital forensic process and model in the cloud / Nhien-An Le-Khac, James Plunkett, Tahar Kechadi, Lei Chen -- Data acquisition in the cloud / Nhien-An Le-Khac, Michel Mollema, Robert Craig, Steven Ryder, Lei Chen -- Digital evidence management, presentation, and court preparation in the cloud : a forensics readiness approach / Lucia De Marco, Nhien-An Le-Khac, Tahar Kechadi -- Analysis of cloud digital evidence / Irfan Ahmed -- Forensic-as-a-service (FaaS) in the cloud state-of-the-art / Avinash Srinivasan.