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Can a Mobile Cloud Be More Trustworthy than a Traditional Cloud?

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Security and Privacy in Mobile Information and Communication Systems (MobiSec 2011)

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Cloud computing is deemed to be the next big trend nebulous. Various sectors have expressed interest in its adoption, including banking, the government, education, manufacturing and telecommunication. With the promise of cost saving and flexibility also comes the greater challenge of security in-particularly "trust". One of the common questions asked by many users is "Can the cloud be trusted?" Telecommunication service providers have been trusted for many years, and have been adopted my millions of users world wide. With the emerging vision of new mobile cloud providers, the ultimate question lies in asking, can a mobile cloud provider be a more trustworthy provider than the traditional ones?

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  1. Orange Lab, UK, Building 10, Chiswick Park, Chiswick, London, W4 5SX

    Mufajjul Ali

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  1. Aalborg University, Niels Jernes Vej 10, 9220, Aalborg, Denmark

    Ramjee Prasad

  2. University of West Hungary, Sopron, and Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 1117, Budapest, Hungary

    Károly Farkas

  3. Novalyst IT AG, Robert-Bosch Str. 38, 61184, Karben, Germany

    Andreas U. Schmidt

  4. Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, 10129, Torino, Italy

    Antonio Lioy

  5. CREATE-NET Research Consortium, via alla Cascata 56D, 38121, Trento, Italy

    Giovanni Russello

  6. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, via Torino 155, 30172, Mestre, VE, Italy

    Flaminia L. Luccio

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Ali, M. (2012). Can a Mobile Cloud Be More Trustworthy than a Traditional Cloud?. In: Prasad, R., Farkas, K., Schmidt, A.U., Lioy, A., Russello, G., Luccio, F.L. (eds) Security and Privacy in Mobile Information and Communication Systems. MobiSec 2011. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 94. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30244-2_11

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