ABSTRACT
To build effective secure cloud computing systems, we also need to build a strong education program on this topic so that we get students to work on the projects. erefore, in addition to developing our cloud infrastructure discussed in Chapter 32, we are also establishing a strong education program with several courses in assured cloud computing with funding from NSF received in 2011. ese courses form a comprehensive set that will provide an example for secure cloud computing capacity building and education in other institutions. Our capacity building project leverages the extensive investments we have made in assured cloud computing research and IA education at UTD to develop courses in assured cloud computing. In particular, we are developing new courses related to building and assuring the cloud as well as enhancing our existing courses on network
security, data and applications security, data mining for security applications, and digital forensics by introducing a major component in secure cloud computing for each of these courses. We are also enhancing the current cloud computing framework that we have developed so that students can (i) utilize this framework for their course projects and (ii) build features to this framework as a part of their class programming projects. Our courses are being made available to a number of partners we are collaborating with in cloud computing research. Our cloud computing framework is illustrated in Figure 33.1.
