Subra Kumaraswamy

Security at Independent

Subra Kumaraswamy has more than 18 years of engineering and management experience in information security, Internet, and e-commerce technologies. He is currently leading an Identity & Access Management program within Sun Microsystems. Subra has held leadership positions at various Internet-based companies, including Netscape, WhoWhere, Lycos, and Knowledge Networks. He was the cofounder of two Internet-based startups, CoolSync and Zingdata. He also worked at Accenture and the University of Notre Dame in security consulting and software engineering roles. In his spare time, Subra researches emerging technologies such as cloud computing to understand the security and privacy implications for users and enterprises. Subra is one of the authors of Cloud Security and Privacy, which addresses issues that affect any organization preparing to use cloud computing as an option. He's a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance as well as cochair of the Identity & Access Management and Encryption & Key Management workgroups. Subra has a master's degree in computer engineering and is CISSP certified.

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Contributions
Video: Cloud Security Deep Dive
In this webcast, the three coauthors of "Cloud Security and Privacy" take a deep dive into cloud security issues and focus on three specific aspects: 1 data security: 2 identity management in the cloud, and; 3 governance in the cloud (in the context of managing a cloud service provider with respect to security obligations).


Video: Cloud Security and Privacy
This webcast discusses current issues in cloud computing with regards to security and privacy. The presenters are the three coauthors of a recent published book, "Cloud Security and Privacy." In this webcast, they discuss cloud issues with infrastructure and data security, identity management, security management, privacy considerations, audit and compliance, Security-as-a-Service (cloud-based security solutions), and the impact of cloud computing on traditional IT.


Video: Cloud Security & Privacy
In this webcast, the authors of "Cloud Security and Privacy" discuss cloud computing's SPI delivery model, and its impact on various aspects of enterprise information security (eg, infrastructure, data, identity and access management, security management), privacy, and compliance. Security-as-a-Service and the impacts of cloud computing on corporate IT is also discussed.


Books


Cloud Security & Privacy
An Enterprise Perspective on Risks and Compliance


By Subra Kumaraswamy, Tim Mather & Shahed Latif
September 22 2009

You may regard cloud computing as an ideal way for your company to control IT costs, but do you know how private and secure this service really is? Not many people do. With Cloud Security and Privacy, you'll learn what's at stake when you trust your data to the cloud, and what you can do to keep your virtual infrastructure and web applications secure. This book offers you sound advice from three well-known authorities in the tech security world.