| Title | Tracing Data on the Cloud |
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Dr. Ryan Ko |
Abstract
“In a recent survey, it was shown that 88% of cloud computing customers surveyed want to know "what goes on behind the scenes" in clouds. This finding reveals how (1) cloud customers are unhappy with the current level/lack of accountability and transparency in cloud computing environments, and (2) the relative lack of solutions which enable cloud providers and users to have an awareness of "who has touched their data, at where and at what time", whether "their data has left a desired boundary/country", or even, "how many copies of their files are present in the cloud at a particular time".
These questions also expose the relative lack of solutions and techniques for tracking the derivation history and life cycle of data in clouds. Solving these holy grails will empower one to truly achieve end-to-end tracking of data in any distributed, virtualized environments. Such solutions will also enable cloud providers to ensure high accountability, auditability and trust.
This seminar introduces the HP TrustCloud project, which enhances cloud accountability and transparency via a suite of techniques for tracing data in cloud computing environments. The presenter will demonstrate how each of these techniques work, their integration with HP products, and compelling competitive advantages over existing security incident and event management (SIEM) tools and data leakage prevention (DLP) techniques. Open research areas that stem from this seminal research in cloud data tracking, log analysis and cloud data provenance will also be discussed.”
Biography
Dr. Ryan Ko is a Researcher in HP Labs' Cloud and Security Lab, and founder/ co-chair of the Cloud Security Alliance (Global)'s Cloud Data Governance working group. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Cloud Security Alliance Singapore chapter as Director of Research. He is leading the HP Labs TrustCloud research project, global pioneers behind end-to-end data tracing in clouds and cloud data provenance. A global thought leader in cloud security and cloud accountability, Dr. Ko's work was recently featured in HP Labs Annual Report 2011 for its global and social impact; he publishes extensively in top conferences and journals in cloud computing and service computing, and is also the Associate Editor of Wiley's Security and Communication Networks, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing, founder and co-chair of the IEEE Symposium on Trust and Security in Cloud Computing (TSCloud) and technical program committee member of several conferences and workshops, including the top-tier IEEE TrustCom, IEEE ICPADS and IEEE Service Cup. A recent work on visualizing large linked data set won him the Best Paper Award in USEWOD 2011, part of the prestigious WWW 2011 conference in Hyderabad. Dr. Ko is regularly invited as speaker and workshop organizer on cloud security in Asia and in the United States. He holds two international patents and is a regular blogger for HP.com, volunteers extensively in rural computer education in Asia, and was an entrepreneur of two startups, a playwright and vice-president of a 26-year old theatre company in Singapore.
