Bob Duncan

University of Aberdeen

Dr. Bob Duncan is an accountant and computer scientist. With many decades of experience with large corporates in manufacturing, brewing and oil and gas, he also has experience in lecturing with the Business School, GeoScience School and the School of Natural Computing Science. His research interests lie in the areas of cloud security and privacy and he is particularly concerned about attack weaknesses and risk of cloud computing, particularly concerning the potential impact of huge regulatory fines in today’s highly regulated business environment.

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Cloud Cyber Security: Finding an Effective Approach with Unikernels

By Bob Duncan, Andreas Happe and Alfred Bratterud

Achieving cloud security is not a trivial problem to address. Developing and enforcing good cloud security controls are fundamental requirements if this is to succeed. The very nature of cloud computing can add additional problem layers for cloud security to an already complex problem area. We discuss why this is such an issue, consider what desirable characteristics should be aimed for and propose a novel means of effectively and efficiently achieving these goals through the use of well-designed unikernel-based systems. We have identified a range of issues, which need to be dealt with properly to ensure a robust level of security and privacy can be achieved. We have addressed these issues in both the context of conventional cloud-based systems, as well as in regard to addressing some of the many weaknesses inherent in the Internet of things. We discuss how our proposed approach may help better address these key security issues which we have identified.

Part of the book: Advances in Security in Computing and Communications

Bob Duncan

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