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Sadie Creese

Professor Sadie Creese, Director of e-Security, The University of Warwick

Biography

Prof. Sadie Creese is Director of e-Security in the new International Digital Laboratory at the University of Warwick. Her group is engaged in a wide range of research, including risk management and information assurance practice, cloud security, data protection, threat and vulnerability modelling and intelligence, information provenance and privacy. Creese services on the EPSRC ICY Programme Strategic Advisory Panel, the International Systems Security Association’s Steering Committee for the UK chapter and the UK Cyber Security KTN Steering Committee. She joined Warwick from QinetiQ, where she most recently served as Director of Strategic Programmes for QinetiQ’s Trusted Information Management Division.



Abstract

Global security challenges of cloud computing

There is no doubt that cloud computing is a major interest for many organisations and individuals. Across the globe massive investment is being made in infrastructure, applications and business models. Currently expectations of the market potential remain high, with Gartner predicting a services market value of $150bn by 2013 . Security, control of data and privacy are key priorities and concerns for potential users, and in an enterprise environment a potential barrier to uptake . Unsurprisingly, the notion of your digital assets residing on infrastructure outside your direct control, and potentially in a geographical location a great distance away, is one which some find hard to accept. So the global nature of the potential cloud ecosystem results in security challenges which, in part, require a globally co-ordinated response. We explore here the requirements for such a response and reflect on the scope of the challenge.




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