Cloud Security in the Edge and Fog Computing Era

Cloud Security in the Edge and Fog Computing Era explores the evolving security challenges and solutions across decentralized computing environments. Beginning with cloud computing fundamentals, the book introduces Edge and Fog paradigms and dives into essential security concepts, threat landscapes, and privacy concerns. It covers robust topics like authentication, encryption, intrusion detection systems, secure containerization, and virtualization strategies. Emerging technologies such as blockchain, AI, and machine learning are examined for their roles in enhancing cloud-edge-fog security. The book also addresses IoT-enabled systems vulnerabilities, offers real-world case studies, and concludes with challenges and future research directions, making it a comprehensive guide for practitioners and researchers.