ST.
VINCENT PALLOTTI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY,NAGPUR
(An autonomous institution affiliated to Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University)
B. Tech. Scheme of Examination & Syllabus 2023-24
CSE(CYBER SECURITY)
FIFTH SEMESTER
Course Code Course Name Th Tu Pr Credits Evaluation
CA ESE Total
22CS504T Introduction to cloud security 3 - - 3
30 70 100
Course Objectives Course Outcomes
This course is intended Students will be able to
1. Learning basics of cloud and challenges in its Articulate the concepts of cloud computing, its various
implementation. deployment and service models and vulnerabilities.
Develop solutions based on the concept of virtualization,
2. Understanding the cloud environment and its resource management and migration.
security issues.
Design measures for cloud data security and identity
3. Understanding the various ways to secure cloud management.
programming environments. Provide recommendations for Cloud Infrastructure
Security based on cloud compliance and policies.
Unit I [7Hrs]
Introduction:
Evolution of Cloud Computing, Cloud Fundamentals: Cloud Definition, Evolution, Architecture, Cloud Characteristics – Elasticity
in Cloud – On-demand Provisioning, Applications, deployment models - Public, Private and Hybrid Clouds, and service models
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Resource Virtualization: Server, Storage, Network. Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Cloud
platform & Management: Computation, Storage. Software as a Service (SaaS) - Anything as a service (XaaS), Security as a
service. Vulnerability Issues and Security Threats, Security Challenges
Unit II [8Hrs]
Definition, Understanding and Benefits of Virtualization. Implementation Level of Virtualization, Virtualization Structure/Tools and
Mechanisms, Issues with virtualization, virtualization technologies and architectures, introduction to Various Hypervisors,
virtualization of data centers, and Virtual Machine level Security, Virtualization security Issues
Unit III [7Hrs]
Resource Management and Load Balancing
Distributed Management of Virtual Infrastructures, Resource management, Load Balancing. Interoperability, Migration and Fault
Tolerance: Issues with interoperability, Cloud Migration, Migration of virtual Machines and techniques. Fault Tolerance
Mechanisms. Risk Assessment on Cloud Migration
Unit IV [7Hrs]
Cloud Data Security and Storage
Cloud storage: Introduction to Storage Systems, Cloud Storage Concepts, Data in the cloud- Cloud file systems. Data level
Security, Data Protection (rest, at transit, in use), Data Information lifecycle, Cloud Data Audit, Multi-tenancy Issues.
Unit V [7Hrs]
Identity and Access Management
Introduction to Identity and Access Management, IAM Challenges, IAM Architecture, IAM Standards and Protocols for Cloud
Services, Cloud Authorization Management.
Text Books
S.N Title Authors Edition Publisher
1 Distributed and cloud computing from Kai Hwang, Geoffrey C. Morgan Kaufmann,
Parallel Processing to the Internet of Fox and Jack J. Elsevier – 2012
Things Dongarra
2 Cloud Security and Privacy An Tim Mather, O'Reilly 2009
Enterprise Perspective on Risks and SubraKumaraswamy,
Compliance and Shahed Latif
Reference Books
S.N Title Authors Edition Publisher
1 Cloud Computing Bible Barrie Sosinsky john Wiley &
Sons
2 Cloud Computing Principles and Ronald L. Krutz,Russell Wiley Publishers.
Paradigms Dean Vines,
