Application of stealth computing in highly information-sensitive cloud environments

Description

Highly information-sensitive domains such as banking, healthcare and government services have been reluctant to adopt cloud and distributed computing technologies since their wide-spread commercial inception over the past 12 years.

In contrast, many other sectors such as telecommunications and shops have embraced diverse cloud strategies and are able to benefit from their cost savings and their abilities to accommodate surge requests. Secure cloud and edge computing strategies are therefore key to broaden the applicability of modern beneficial technologies, such as resilient cloud-native applications with data persistence guarantees, to the reluctant sectors.

On the other hand, many important technologies in the security domain, in particular in digital forensics, are increasingly developed for cloud environments, or their vendors have announced at least plans to do so. The company involved in this proposal from Dubai, Penta, is a pioneer in world-wide IT businesses specifically for the information-sensitive market, focusing on digital transformation and cyber-security.

While Penta offers several cloud solutions, gaining capabilities in secure cloud computing and cloud-/edge-related cyber-security and autonomous (self-learning) forensics would significantly boost its market potential to protect sensitive businesses and organisations in the cloud. Previous research results developed at the universities involved in this proposal, ZHAW and University of Sharjah, contribute to the gaining of knowledge and tooling experience for this purpose.