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Workshop on “Accountability and SLA management for the cloud” co-located with SecureCloud 2014

Date: 
Thursday, April 3, 2014

The A4Cloud and the SPECS European Research projects are jointly organising a one day Workshop on “Accountability and SLA management for the cloud” to disseminate research results and to collect the feedback from practitioners about diverse topics including Cloud SLAs, security, privacy and accountability. The event will be held in conjunction with the SecureCloud conference 2014 on the 3rd April, 2014, at the Amsterdam RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

The workshop will mostly consist of technical presentations by researchers from both projects, but we will also have the opportunity for open discussions. The agenda is as follows:

Time Slot

 

Project

Presenter

9:00-9:30

Registration

   

9:30-9:40

Welcome

   

9:40-9:50

A4Cloud intro The Cloud Accountability Project

A4Cloud

Anderson Santana de Oliveira - SAP

9:50-10:20

The A4Cloud Risk and trust model

A4Cloud

Anderson Santana de Oliveira – SAP

10:20-10:40

Transparency Requirements for better Cloud Accountability: perspectives of cloud customers

A4Cloud

Daniela Soares Cruzes - SINTEF

10:40-11:00

Coffee Break

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11:00-11:30

SPECS: Secure provisioning of Cloud Services based on SLA management
(Project Introduction 15 minutes)

SPECS

Massimiliano Rak – CeRICT

11:30-12:00

Requirement analysis for a Platform-as-a-Service dedicated to SLA-based Security Services

SPECS

Valentina Casola - CeRICT

12:00-12:30

Security parameters on cloud SLA

SPECS

Jesus Luna – CSA

12:30-13:00

SPECS: Open discussion

SPECS

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13:00-14:00

Lunch

   

14:00-14.30

The reform of the European Data Protection Directive in the light of cloud computing challenges

A4Cloud

Eleni Kosta and Dimitra Stefanatou, Tilburg University

14:30-15:00

Interoperability and Standardization

A4Cloud

Alain Pannetrat – CSA

15:00-15:30

Automated Security Management of the 3rd Platform and Next Generation Data Centers using SPECS

SPECS

Wiliam Fitzgerald, Said Tabet – EMC

15:30-15:45

Coffee Break

   

15:45-16:15

Proof of retrievability

A4Cloud

Melek Önen – Eurecom Institute

16:15-16:45

A tool for visualizing and controlling how my data are used in the Cloud

A4Cloud

Julio Angulo, Karlstad University

16:45-17:15

Two examples how SPECS could simplify cloud application development for SMEs: identity management and SLA violations monitoring

SPECS

Miha Stopar – XLAB

17:15-17:30

Closing notes

   

Registration

Registration to the workshop is free of charge. Registered participants will have a 15% discount on the full SecureCloud conference price. To register, please write an email to Carolina Ozan cozan [at] cloudsecurityalliance.org. 

Workshop Organisation

Daniele Catteddu, Massimiliano Rak, and Anderson Santana de Oliveira