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What's Special About Cloud Security?

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Author(s)

Peter M. Mell

Abstract

While cloud security concerns have consistently ranked as one of the top challenges to cloud adoption, it is not clear what security issues are special with respect to cloud computing. To approach this question, we attempt to derive cloud security issues from various cloud definitions and a reference architecture.
Citation
IT Professional (IEEE)
Volume
14
Issue
4
Pub Type
Journals

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https://doi.org/10.1109/MITP.2012.84

Keywords

cloud computing, computer security, cloud definition, cloud architecture
Information technology, Cloud computing and virtualization and Cybersecurity

Citation

Mell, P. (2012), What's Special About Cloud Security?, IT Professional (IEEE), [online], https://doi.org/10.1109/MITP.2012.84 (Accessed May 4, 2025)

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Created July 16, 2012, Updated May 4, 2021