Security considerations for virtual platform provisioning

10th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security 2011, ECIW 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 283-290

  Aslam, Mudassar ^a   Gehrmann, Christian ^a  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Clouds; Security; Telecommunication networks; Trust; Virtual private server; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION LAYERS; BUSINESS BENEFITS; BUSINESS MODELS; DATA CENTERS; DEPLOYMENT SCENARIOS; HYBRID SCHEME; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; RESOURCE UTILIZATIONS; SECURITY; SECURITY ANALYSIS; SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS; SECURITY ISSUES; SECURITY REQUIREMENTS; SECURITY TECHNOLOGY; SENSITIVE INFORMATIONS; SERVICE OFFERING; SERVICE PROVIDER; SYSTEM RESOURCES; TELECOMMUNICATION PROVIDERS; THREATS ANALYSIS; TRUST; USAGE SCENARIOS; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUAL PLATFORM; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

CLOUDS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84864877472     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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