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Privacy in Data Centers: A Survey of Attacks and Countermeasures

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A Data Center collects, stores, and transmits huge dimensions of sensitive information of many types. Data Center security has become one of the highest network priorities as data thieves and crime cells look to infiltrate perimeter defenses through increasingly complex attack vectors with alarming success and devastating effects.

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Part of the computations of this work were performed in EOLO, the HPC of Climate Change of the International Campus of Excellence of Moncloa, funded by MECD and MICINN.

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  1. Group of Analysis, Security and Systems (GASS), Department of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (DISIA), Faculty of Information Technology and Computer Science, Office 431, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Madrid, Spain

    Luis Javier García Villalba, Alejandra Guadalupe Silva Trujillo & Javier Portela

  2. Calle Profesor José García Santesmases 9, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    Luis Javier García Villalba, Alejandra Guadalupe Silva Trujillo & Javier Portela

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García Villalba, L., Silva Trujillo, A., Portela, J. (2015). Privacy in Data Centers: A Survey of Attacks and Countermeasures. In: Khan, S., Zomaya, A. (eds) Handbook on Data Centers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2092-1_34

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