Accountability and Security in the Cloud Kartoniert (TB)

The First A4Cloud Summer School has been one of the first events in the area of accountability and security in the cloud. It was organized by the EU-funded A4Cloud project in collaboration with the European projects CIRRUS Coco Cloud CUMULUS and SPECS. Cloud computing is a key technology that is being adopted progressively by companies and users across different application domains and industries. Yet there are emerging issues such as security privacy and data protection. The 13 contributions included in this volume cover the state of the art and provide research insights into the follo wing topics: accountability in the cloud privacy and transparency in the cloud empirical approaches for the cloud socio-legal aspects of the cloud cloud standards and the accountability glossary of terms and definitions.