Technical, Legal, Business and Management Issues

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1 The Cloud Security Ecosystem: Technical, Legal, Business and Management Issues Call for Book Chapters The cloud security ecosystem is complex and multi-disciplinary, and relatively underresearched compared to the traditional information and network security disciplines. Successful cloud security management requires an appreciation of an ecosystem comprising technical, business, geographical and legal considerations. Drawing upon the expertise of world-renown researchers and experts, this book will comprehensively discuss a range of cloud security topics from multi-disciplinary and international perspectives, and aligning technical security implementations with the recent developments in business, legal and international environments, as well as key research and policy advances in cloud security. SCOPE To advance the state of the art in this research area, we are seeking ORIGINAL and UNPUBLISHED technical-, business-, policy- and/or legal-oriented as well as interdisciplinary submissions related to cloud issues such as Technical topics including: Auditability and accountability techniques for cloud Cloud data provenance Cloud forensics Cloud resource virtualization and composition Cloud trust protocols Cloud privacy Cryptographic deployment and key management in clouds Mobile devices and the cloud; Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) security management Cloud security standards and recent advances Responding to cloud emergencies and incidents Any relevant technical topic to cloud security Legal landscape and challenges topics including: Cases relating to cloud security breaches Cloud data governance Legal boundaries or advances Mitigation and liabilities for international cloud deployments Any relevant technical topic to cloud legislation relating to security, privacy and forensics Page1

2 Management-related topics including: Cloud information security management Cloud migration Economics of cloud security Risk management Standardisation efforts in cloud security Cases relating to cloud policy implementation. Application-related topics including: Cloud applications development Innovative cloud applications and experiences BOOK CHAPTER SUBMISSION AND AUTHOR INFORMATION Chapter Proposals Prospective authors must send their chapter proposals in pdf format to BOTH editors s (see below) with the following information: 1. Chapter Title 2. Name, Affiliation, and of Author(s) 3. Focus Area: Technical/ Legal/ Management/ Others (please specify) 4. Chapter Extended Abstract (300 words maximum) 5. Chapter Outline (in bullet-point form) 6. Author Biography (100 words maximum) Subject heading of the should be Cloud Security Ecosystem book chapter. Submission of Manuscripts for Approved Proposals After their proposals are approved by the editors, prospective authors will be invited to submit their manuscripts electronically to Elsevier manuscript submission system (Link will be provided by the Book Editors). Submitted manuscripts will undergo a single-blind peerreview process. To ensure the quality of accepted manuscripts, each manuscript is typically reviewed by at least two independent expert reviewers. Only accepted peer-reviewed manuscripts will be published. Submitted manuscripts should conform to the standard guidelines of the Syngress/Elsevier s book chapter format (see appended Elsevier S&T Books Manuscript preparation guidelines ). In addition, the submission should use a page size corresponding to A4 in 11 point regular font, and must not exceed 25 pages per chapter. Manuscripts that do not follow the formatting rules will be ignored. Manuscripts should also be written in a way that it is teaching a topic, and not just pure academic reports of research work or proposals. Vendor neutrality must be observed in the manuscripts. Survey papers of the above topics are welcome. The accepted contributions will be published by Syngress/Elsevier. Page2

3 IMPORTANT DATES Chapter proposal due: 1 July 2014 Book chapter submission: 31 August 2014 Authors notification: 31 October 2014 Camera ready version: 30 November 2014 Estimated publication: February / March 2015 BOOK EDITORS Dr Ryan Ko University of Waikato, New Zealand ryan@waikato.ac.nz Dr Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo University of South Australia, Australia raymond.choo@fulbrightmail.org Page3

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