Secure and reliable management of identities has become one of the greatest challenges
facing cloud computing today, mainly due to the huge number of new cloud-based …

Traditional assurance solutions for software-based systems rely on static verification
techniques and assume continuous availability of trusted third parties. With the advent of …

The cloud computing has deeply changed how distributed systems are engineered, leading
to the proliferation of ever-evolving and complex environments, where legacy systems …

Continuous service certification (CSC) involves the consistently gathering and assessing
certification-relevant information about cloud service operations to validate whether they …

Big data management is a key enabling factor for enterprises that want to compete in the
global market. Data coming from enterprise production processes, if properly analyzed, can …

The diffusion of service-based and cloud-based systems has created a scenario where
software is often made available as services, offered as commodities over corporate …

Information-Centric Networking is an emerging alternative to host-centric networking
designed for large-scale content distribution and stricter privacy requirements. Recent …

Continuous security certification of software-asa-service (SaaS) aims at continuously, ie
repeatedly and automatically validating whether a SaaS application adheres to a set of …

The huge progress of ICT is radically changing distributed systems at their roots, modifying
their operation and engineering practices and introducing new non-functional (eg, security …

Continuous test-based cloud certification uses tests to automatically and repeatedly
evaluate whether a cloud service satisfies customer requirements over time. However …