Introduction to Cloud Data Security (CS 7301) 

Time and Location  : Fr 10:00am-12:45pm @ ECSS 2.306

Instructor:	Murat Kantarcioglu
Office Hours & Location:	Mondays 4pm-6pm @ECSS 3.225
Teaching Assistant:	Huseyin Ulusoy
Office Hours & Location:	Tue/Thur 1:30pm-2:30pm@ ECSS 3.613

 Prerequisites:
CS 5333, CS 5343, CS 6360, CS 6377Please take this course only if you have enough background to understand the following        papers related to cryptography (pdf) , operating systems (pdf) and security (pdf)

  

Grading:

Project	%30  (Group project (up to 3 people) that requires programming)
Quizzes	%20  (Four-five quizzes done randomly on any given day.)
Midterm	%25  (In class)
Final	%25  (In class)
Class Part	%5    (Bonus for Class Participation)

Course Topics: (tentative)
  

• Cloud computing overview including Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2 etc.

• Large data management in the cloud

• Cloud data security overview

• Cryptographic tools for cloud security
• Hypervisor security
  

• Security issues in cloud infrastructure

Textbook:
                    There will be no text books. The course will be based on published articles and online tutorials.

Course Outline (Tentative):

08.26.2011	Topics to be discussed: Overview of cloud data management Recent trends Introduction to Microsoft Azure and Amazon EC3 framework Slides (pdf) Suggested Reading: Economic and Business case for cloud computing (pdf) Economics of big data (pdf) Executive summary section  only. Overview of Microsoft Azure Framework (pdf) Berkley View of Cloud computing (pdf) Amazon Web Services Overview
09.02.2011	Large Scale Data Managemet Using Cloud Slides (pdf) Map-reduce examples (pdf) Suggested Reading: Chapter 2 of "Mining of Massive Datasets"  by Rajaraman and Ullmann (pdf) Yahoo Hadoop Tutorial Google File System (pdf) Map-Reduce (pdf) Big Table (pdf) Hive (pdf)
09.09.2011	Large Scale Data Managemet Using Cloud cont.
09.16.2011	Overview of Data Security Issues in the Cloud  Slides (pdf) Suggested Reading: Microsoft Azure Security Architecture  (pdf) Amazon EC2 Security Architecture (pdf) Open Issues "What is new in cloud security?" (pdf) Cloud security trends (pdf)
09.23.2011	Cryptographic tools for secure cloud data management Cryptography notes part one (pdf) Suggested Reading: Basic cryptography refresher (pdf) Number theory refresher for cryptography (pdf)
09.30.2011	Cryptographic tools cont. Project Idea Suggestion: (pdf) Suggested Reading: Identity based Encryption (pdf) Searchable Symmetric Key Encryption (pdf) Searchable Public Key Encryption (pdf) Homomorphic Encryption (not included in the midterm) Handouts will be given in class related to this topic. Predicate Encryption (not included in the midterm) (pdf)
10.07.2011	Cryptographic tools cont.
10.14.2011	Cryptographic tools cont.
10.21.2011	MIDTERM !!!
10.28.2011	Cryptographic tools cont.
11.04.2011	Virtual Machines Virtual Machine Design Overview slides (pdf) Virtual Machine based IDS slides (pdf) Attacks on VMMs in the cloud slides (pdf) Suggested Reading: Overview of Virtual Machines (pdf) Virtual Machine Monitor Technology overview (pdf) Using VMMs for intrusion detection (pdf) VMM attacks(pdf) VMM auditing (pdf) (not included in the final) VMM security (pdf)  (not included in the final)
11.11.2011	VMM discussion cont.
11.18.2011	Secure Similiarity Search over Encrypted Data (pdf) Access control techniques for Hadoop (pdf)
11.25.2011	No class. Happy Thanksgiving!
12.02.2011	Project Presentations.
12.09.2011	FINAL EXAM !!! in class at 10am.