Cloud Computing and Security
Get the full GTU study material, English & Gujarati textbook PDFs, syllabus curriculum, and solved previous year question papers.
English Book & Chapters
English Book Coming Soon
We are working hard to add this material. Stay tuned for updates!
Follow on Instagram for UpdatesGTU Previous Year Papers
Papers Coming Soon
We are working hard to add this material. Stay tuned for updates!
Follow on Instagram for UpdatesCloud Computing and Security Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Cloud Computing and Security (subject code 4725905) as prescribed for CS · Semester 2 divides the course into 7 units, covering 78 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (4725905)Unit 1 UNIT - I
- Cloud Computing Fundamentals: Definition of Cloud Computing
- Cloud Deployment Models: Public
- Hybrid and Community Cloud
- Service Models: SaaS
- PaaS and IaaS
- Business Agility: Benefits
- Risks and challenges to Cloud architecture
- Application availability
- security and disaster recovery in cloud
- next generation Cloud Applications
Unit 2 UNIT - II
- Concepts of Security: CIA Triad (Confidentiality
- access control
- defense in depth
- least privilege
- how these concepts applicable in the cloud
- their importance in PaaS
- IaaS and w.e.f
- AY 2021-22 SaaS. e.g.
- User authentication in the cloud
- Cryptographic Systems- Symmetric cryptography
- stream ciphers
- block ciphers
- modes of operation
- public-key cryptography
- digital signatures
- public- key infrastructures
- key management
Unit 3 UNIT - III
- Multi-Tenancy Issues: Isolation of users/VMs from each other
- How the cloud provider can provide this
- Virtualization System Security Issues- e.g.
- ESX and ESXi Security
- ESX file system security
- storage considerations
- backup and recovery
- Virtualization System Vulnerabilities- Management console vulnerabilities
- management server vulnerabilities
- administrative VM vulnerabilities
- guest VM vulnerabilities
- hypervisor vulnerabilities
- hypervisor escape vulnerabilities
- configuration issues
- malware (botnets etc.)
Unit 4 UNIT - IV
- Virtualization System Specific Attacks: Guest hopping
- attacks on the VM (delete the VM, attack on the control of the VM, code or file injection into the virtualized file structure)
- VM migration attack
- hyper jacking
Unit 5 UNIT - V
- Data Protection for Cloud Infrastructure and Services: Understand the Cloud based Information Life Cycle
- Data protection for Confidentiality and Integrity
- Common attack vectors and threats
- Data Redaction
- PKI and Key Management
- assuring data deletion
- Data retention
- deletion and archiving procedures for tenant Data Protection Strategies
Unit 6 UNIT – VI
- Cloud Forensics: Cloud Computing Forensic Science Challenges
- Confiscation of Cloud resources
- Legal challenges and standards
- Challenges with location
- data and logs
- Live Forensics
- Artifacts gathering from cloud computing
- log management
- Cloud forensics research & development work
Unit 7 UNIT – VII
- Legal and Compliance Issues: Responsibility
- ownership of data
- right to penetration test
- local law where data is held
- examination of modern Security Standards (e.g.
- how standards deal with cloud services and virtualization
- compliance for the cloud provider vs. compliance for the customer. w.e.f
- AY 2021-22 Text Books/Reference Books: 1
- Tim Mather
- “Cloud Security and Privacy: An Enterprise Perspective on Risks and Compliance” O'Reilly Media
- 1 edition [ISBN: 0596802765]
- Russell Dean Vines
- “Cloud Security” [ISBN: 0470589876]
- Handbook of Cloud Computing
- Armando Escalante
Study on Android App:
