A security and usability perspective of cloud file systems

Appeared in 6th IEEE International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE).

Abstract

Security and usability are the top concerns of business users and administrators of information technology services. This paper discusses several security and usability issues with cloud file systems, identifies four enablers for a secure and usable cloud storage infrastructure, and describes how such enablers can assist in an orderly transition of enterprise IT services to the cloud.

Publication date:
June 2011

Authors:
Alex Nelson
George Dinolt
Bret Michael
Man-Tak Shing

Projects:
Secure File and Storage Systems
Ultra-Large Scale Storage

Bibtex entry

@inproceedings{nelson-sose11,
  author       = {Alex Nelson and George Dinolt and Bret Michael and Man-Tak Shing},
  title        = {A security and usability perspective of cloud file systems},
  booktitle    = {6th IEEE International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE)},
  month        = jun,
  year         = {2011},
}