Cloud Enterprise Architecture Cloud Enterprise Architecture examines enterprise architecture (EA) in the context of the surging popularity of Cloud computing. It explains the different kinds of desired transformations the architectural blocks of EA undergo in light of this strategically significant convergence. Chapters cover each of the contributing architectures of EA—business information application integration security and technology—illustrating the current and impending implications of the Cloud on each. Discussing the implications of the Cloud paradigm on EA the book details the perceptible and positive changes that will affect EA design governance strategy management and sustenance. The author ties these topics together with chapters on Cloud integration and composition architecture. He also examines the Enterprise Cloud Federated Clouds and the vision to establish the InterCloud. Laying out a comprehensive strategy for planning and executing Cloud-inspired transformations the book: Explains how the Cloud changes and affects enterprise architecture design governance strategy management and sustenance Presents helpful information on next-generation Cloud computing Describes additional architectural types such as enterprise-scale integration security management and governance architectures This book is an ideal resource for enterprise architects Cloud evangelists and enthusiasts and Cloud application and service architects. Cloud center administrators Cloud business executives managers and analysts will also find the book helpful and inspirational while formulating appropriate mechanisms and schemes for sound modernization and migration of traditional applications to Cloud infrastructures and platforms. GBP 54.99 1
Cloud Computing Concepts and Technologies Comprehensive and timely Cloud Computing: Concepts and Technologies offers a thorough and detailed description of cloud computing concepts architectures and technologies along with guidance on the best ways to understand and implement them. It covers the multi-core architectures distributed and parallel computing models virtualization cloud developments workload and Service-Level-Agreements (SLA) in cloud workload management. Further resource management issues in cloud with regard to resource provisioning resource allocation resource mapping and resource adaptation ethical non-ethical and security issues in cloud are followed by discussion of open challenges and future directions. This book gives students a comprehensive overview of the latest technologies and guidance on cloud computing and is ideal for those studying the subject in specific modules or advanced courses. It is designed in twelve chapters followed by laboratory setups and experiments. Each chapter has multiple choice questions with answers as well as review questions and critical thinking questions. The chapters are practically-focused meaning that the information will also be relevant and useful for professionals wanting an overview of the topic. | Cloud Computing Concepts and Technologies GBP 44.99 1
Cloud Reliability Engineering Technologies and Tools Coud reliability engineering is a leading issue of cloud services. Cloud service providers guarantee computation storage and applications through service-level agreements (SLAs) for promised levels of performance and uptime. Cloud Reliability Engineering: Technologies and Tools presents case studies examining cloud services their challenges and the reliability mechanisms used by cloud service providers. These case studies provide readers with techniques to harness cloud reliability and availability requirements in their own endeavors. Both conceptual and applied the book explains reliability theory and the best practices used by cloud service companies to provide high availability. It also examines load balancing and cloud security. Written by researchers and practitioners the book’s chapters are a comprehensive study of cloud reliability and availability issues and solutions. Various reliability class distributions and their effects on cloud reliability are discussed. An important aspect of reliability block diagrams is used to categorize poor reliability of cloud infrastructures where enhancement can be made to lower the failure rate of the system. This technique can be used in design and functional stages to determine poor reliability of a system and provide target improvements. Load balancing for reliability is examined as a migrating process or performed by using virtual machines. The approach employed to identify the lightly loaded destination node to which the processes/virtual machines migrate can be optimized by employing a genetic algorithm. To analyze security risk and reliability a novel technique for minimizing the number of keys and the security system is presented. The book also provides an overview of testing methods for the cloud and a case study discusses testing reliability installability and security. A comprehensive volume Cloud Reliability Engineering: Technologies and Tools combines research theory and best practices used to engineer reliable cloud availability and performance. | Cloud Reliability Engineering Technologies and Tools GBP 56.99 1
Cloud Security Concepts Applications and Perspectives Cloud computing is an indispensable part of the modern Information and Communication Technology (ICT) systems. Cloud computing services have proven to be of significant importance and promote quickly deployable and scalable IT solutions with reduced infrastructure costs. However utilization of cloud also raises concerns such as security privacy latency and governance that keep it from turning into the predominant option for critical frameworks. As such there is an urgent need to identify these concerns and to address them. Cloud Security: Concepts Applications and Perspectives is a comprehensive work with substantial technical details for introducing the state-of-the-art research and development on various approaches for security and privacy of cloud services; novel attacks on cloud services; cloud forensics; novel defenses for cloud service attacks; and cloud security analysis. It discusses the present techniques and methodologies and provides a wide range of examples and illustrations to effectively show the concepts applications and perspectives of security in cloud computing. This highly informative book will prepare readers to exercise better protection by understanding the motivation of attackers and to deal with them to mitigate the situation. In addition it covers future research directions in the domain. This book is suitable for professionals in the field researchers students who are want to carry out research in the field of computer and cloud security faculty members across universities and software developers engaged in software development in the field. | Cloud Security Concepts Applications and Perspectives GBP 59.99 1
Advances in Mobile Cloud Computing Systems With recent advances in mobile communication technologies more and more people are accessing cloud computing systems using mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Unlike traditional mobile computing systems with limited capabilities mobile cloud computing uses the powerful computing and storage resources available in the cloud to provide cutting-edge multimedia and information services. This book discusses the major research advances in mobile cloud computing systems. Contributed chapters from leading experts in this field cover different aspects of modeling analysis design optimization and architecture of mobile cloud computing systems. Advances in Mobile Cloud Computing Systems begins by discussing the background features and available service models of mobile cloud computing. It goes on to describe a mobile cloud computing system with several third party cloud mobile media (CMM) services that offers its services to a telecom operator. In this scenario the telecom operator acts as broker that can mix and interchange the resources offered by the different CMM service providers. Subsequent contributed chapters discuss such key research areas asEnergy-efficient task execution that reduces the energy consumption in both mobile devices and the cloudDesign and architecture of a Proximity Cloud that delivers low-latency bandwidth-efficient end-user services with a global footprintVirtual mobile networks in clouds that enable resource sharing between multiple mobile network operatorsSoftware piracy control framework in mobile cloud computing systems designed to prevent mobile application piracyDynamic configuration of cloud radio access networks (C-RANs) to improve end-to-end TCP throughput performance in next generation wireless networksThe book includes many supporting illustrations and tables along with GBP 59.99 1
Cloud Security Attacks Techniques Tools and Challenges Cloud computing has gained paramount attention and most of the companies are adopting this new paradigm and gaining significant benefits. As number of applications and business operations are being facilitated by the cloud computing paradigm it has become the potential target to attackers. The importance of well-organized architecture and security roles have become greater with the growing popularity. Cloud Security: Attacks Techniques Tools and Challenges provides an in-depth technical description about various key essential aspects of cloud security. We have endeavored to provide a technical foundation that will be practically useful not just for students and independent researchers but also for professional cloud security analysts for conducting security procedures and all those who are curious in the field of cloud security The book offers comprehensive coverage of the most essential topics including: Basic fundamentals of Cloud Computing Cloud security concepts vulnerabilities security standards and reference models Cloud security goals key issues and privacy requirements Threat model detailed taxonomy of cloud attacks Attack feature analysis – case study A detailed taxonomy of IDS techniques and Cloud Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) Attack and security tools LibVMI – case study Advanced approaches: Virtual Machine Introspection (VMI) and Hypervisor Introspection (HVI) Container security: threat model attacks and defense systems This book is intended for both academic and professional audience. It could also be used as a textbook for a semester course at undergraduate and post graduate level in Computer Science Information Technology Information Security and Information Science & Management. The book serves as basic reference volume for researchers in cloud security. It will be useful to practitioners cloud security team and the cloud security auditor as well. To get the most out of this book the reader should have a working knowledge of various operating system environments hypervisors cloud computing fundamentals programming languages like Python and a working knowledge of security tools. | Cloud Security Attacks Techniques Tools and Challenges GBP 130.00 1
The Cloud in IoT-enabled Spaces The Cloud in IoT-enabled Spaces addresses major issues and challenges in IoT-based solutions proposed for the Cloud. It paves the way for IoT-enabled spaces in the next generation cloud computing paradigm and opens the door for further innovative ideas. Topics include Cloud-based optimization in the IoT era scheduling and routing medium access data caching secure access uncertainty home automation machine learning in wearable devices energy monitoring and plant phenotyping in farming. Smart spaces are solutions where Internet of Things (IoT)-enabling technologies have been employed towards further advances in the lifestyle. It tightly integrates with the existing Cloud infrastructure to impact several fields in academia and industry. The Cloud in IoT-enabled Spaces provides an overview of the issues around small spaces and proposes the most up-to-date alternatives and solutions. The objective is to pave the way for IoT-enabled spaces in the next-generation Cloud computing and open the door for further innovative ideas. GBP 42.99 1
The Cloud Computing Book The Future of Computing Explained This latest textbook from bestselling author Douglas E. Comer is a class-tested book providing a comprehensive introduction to cloud computing. Focusing on concepts and principles rather than commercial offerings by cloud providers and vendors The Cloud Computing Book: The Future of Computing Explained gives readers a complete picture of the advantages and growth of cloud computing cloud infrastructure virtualization automation and orchestration and cloud-native software design. The book explains real and virtual data center facilities including computation (e. g. servers hypervisors Virtual Machines and containers) networks (e. g. leaf-spine architecture VLANs and VxLAN) and storage mechanisms (e. g. SAN NAS and object storage). Chapters on automation and orchestration cover the conceptual organization of systems that automate software deployment and scaling. Chapters on cloud-native software cover parallelism microservices MapReduce controller-based designs and serverless computing. Although it focuses on concepts and principles the book uses popular technologies in examples including Docker containers and Kubernetes. Final chapters explain security in a cloud environment and the use of models to help control the complexity involved in designing software for the cloud. The text is suitable for a one-semester course for software engineers who want to understand cloud and for IT managers moving an organization’s computing to the cloud. | The Cloud Computing Book The Future of Computing Explained GBP 44.99 1
Securing the Cloud Security Strategies for the Ubiquitous Data Center This book provides solutions for securing important data stored in something as nebulous sounding as a cloud. A primer on the concepts behind security and the cloud it explains where and how to store data and what should be avoided at all costs. It presents the views and insight of the leading experts on the state of cloud computing security and its future. It also provides no-nonsense info on cloud security technologies and models. Securing the Cloud: Security Strategies for the Ubiquitous Data Center takes the position that cloud security is an extension of recognized established security principles into cloud-based deployments. It explores how those principles can be put into practice to protect cloud-based infrastructure and data traditional infrastructure and hybrid architectures combining cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Cloud computing is evolving so rapidly that regulations and technology have not necessarily been able to keep pace. IT professionals are frequently left to force fit pre-existing solutions onto new infrastructure and architectures for which they may be very poor fits. This book looks at how those square peg/round hole solutions are implemented and explains ways in which the pegs the holes or both may be adjusted for a more perfect fit. | Securing the Cloud Security Strategies for the Ubiquitous Data Center GBP 42.99 1
Cloud Native Networking Deep-Dive This book demystifies how Kubernetes networking actually works by walking through a simple but practical simulation that mirrors reality as closely as possible while skipping the gory details. Widespread adoption of container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes have spawned a whole field of industry products startups and academic research in the field of container networking typically termed as cloud-native networking. But what is cloud-native networking? What are the various pieces and how do they fit together? Over recent years most applications have been deployed on cloud infrastructure. Kubernetes has been the widely adopted orchestrator for these clouds. Application developers in most cases are unaware of the underlying plumbing in Kubernetes that holds their applications running as containers. Networking is an integral part of any Kubernetes environment and efficiently drives the various abstractions provided by it. Needless to say it greatly effects the performance of applications which in general have a humongous amount of inter-microservice communication. The impact is even more profound in multiple cloud environments. | Cloud Native Networking Deep-Dive GBP 54.99 1
Privacy and Security Challenges in Cloud Computing A Holistic Approach This reference text discusses various security techniques and challenges for cloud data protection from both software and hardware aspects. The text provides readers with an overview of cloud computing beginning with historical perspectives on mainframe computers and early networking protocols moving to current issues such as security of hardware and networks performance evolving IoT areas edge computing etc. It also deals with threat detection and incident response in cloud security. It covers important topics including operational security agitations in cloud computing cyber artificial intelligence (AI) platform for cloud security and security concerns of virtualization in cloud computing. The book will serve as a useful resource for graduate students and professionals in the fields of electrical engineering electronics engineering computer science and information technology. | Privacy and Security Challenges in Cloud Computing A Holistic Approach GBP 115.00 1
Cloud Network Management An IoT Based Framework Data storage processing and management at remote location over dynamic networks is the most challenging task in cloud networks. Users’ expectations are very high for data accuracy reliability accessibility and availability in pervasive cloud environment. It was the core motivation for the Cloud Networks Internet of Things (CNIoT). The exponential growth of the networks and data management in CNIoT must be implemented in fast growing service sectors such as logistic and enterprise management. The network based IoT works as a bridge to fill the gap between IT and cloud networks where data is easily accessible and available. This book provides a framework for the next generation of cloud networks which is the emerging part of 5G partnership projects. This contributed book has following salient features A cloud-based next generation networking technologies. Cloud-based IoT and mobility management technology. The proposed book is a reference for research scholars and course supplement for cloud-IoT related subjects such as distributed networks in computer/ electrical engineering. Sanjay Kumar Biswash is working as an Assistant professor in NIIT University India. He held Research Scientist position Institute of Cybernetics National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University Russia. He was PDF at LNCC Brazil and SDSU USA. He was a visiting researcher to the UC Portugal. Sourav Kanti Addya is working as an Assistant professor in NITK Surathkal India. He was a PDF at IIT Kharagpur India. He was a visiting scholar at SDSU USA. He obtained national level GATE scholarship. He is a member of IEEE ACM. | Cloud Network Management An IoT Based Framework GBP 115.00 1
Practical Cloud Security A Cross-Industry View Melvin Greer and Kevin Jackson have assembled a comprehensive guide to industry-specific cybersecurity threats and provide a detailed risk management framework required to mitigate business risk associated with the adoption of cloud computing. This book can serve multiple purposes not the least of which is documenting the breadth and severity of the challenges that today’s enterprises face and the breadth of programmatic elements required to address these challenges. This has become a boardroom issue: Executives must not only exploit the potential of information technologies but manage their potential risks. Key Features• Provides a cross-industry view of contemporary cloud computing security challenges solutions and lessons learned• Offers clear guidance for the development and execution of industry-specific cloud computing business and cybersecurity strategies• Provides insight into the interaction and cross-dependencies between industry business models and industry-specific cloud computing security requirements | Practical Cloud Security A Cross-Industry View GBP 44.99 1
Security and Privacy Trends in Cloud Computing and Big Data It is essential for an organization to know before involving themselves in cloud computing and big data what are the key security requirements for applications and data processing. Big data and cloud computing are integrated together in practice. Cloud computing offers massive storage high computation power and distributed capability to support processing of big data. In such an integrated environment the security and privacy concerns involved in both technologies become combined. This book discusses these security and privacy issues in detail and provides necessary insights into cloud computing and big data integration. It will be useful in enhancing the body of knowledge concerning innovative technologies offered by the research community in the area of cloud computing and big data. Readers can get a better understanding of the basics of cloud computing big data and security mitigation techniques to deal with current challenges as well as future research opportunities. | Security and Privacy Trends in Cloud Computing and Big Data GBP 77.99 1
Integration of Cloud Computing with Emerging Technologies Issues Challenges and Practices This book gives a complete overview of cloud computing: its importance its trends innovations and its amalgamation with other technologies. Key Features: 1 In-depth explanation of emerging technologies utilizing cloud computing 2 Supplemented with visuals flow charts and diagrams 3 Real-time examples included 4 Caters to beginners as well as advanced researchers by explaining implications innovations issues and challenges of cloud computing 5 Highlights the need for cloud computing and the true benefits derived by its application and integration in emerging technologies 6 Simple easy language | Integration of Cloud Computing with Emerging Technologies Issues Challenges and Practices GBP 90.00 1
Security and Risk Analysis for Intelligent Cloud Computing Methods Applications and Preventions This edited book is a compilation of scholarly articles on the latest developments in the field of AI Blockchain and ML/DL in cloud security. This book is designed for security and risk assessment professionals and to help undergraduate postgraduate students research scholars academicians and technology professionals who are interested in learning practical approaches to cloud security. It covers practical strategies for assessing the security and privacy of cloud infrastructure and applications and shows how to make cloud infrastructure secure to combat threats and attacks and prevent data breaches. The chapters are designed with a granular framework starting with the security concepts followed by hands-on assessment techniques based on real-world studies. Readers will gain detailed information on cloud computing security that—until now—has been difficult to access. This book: • Covers topics such as AI Blockchain and ML/DL in cloud security. • Presents several case studies revealing how threat actors abuse and exploit cloud environments to spread threats. • Explains the privacy aspects you need to consider in the cloud including how they compare with aspects considered in traditional computing models. • Examines security delivered as a service—a different facet of cloud security. | Security and Risk Analysis for Intelligent Cloud Computing Methods Applications and Preventions GBP 110.00 1
Cloud-Based Music Production Sampling Synthesis and Hip-Hop Cloud-Based Music Production: Samples Synthesis and Hip-Hop presents a discussion on cloud-based music-making procedures and the musical competencies required to make hip-hop beats. By investigating how hip-hop producers make music using cloud-based music production libraries this book reveals how those services impact music production en masse. Cloud-Based Music Production takes the reader through the creation of hip-hop beats from start to finish – from selecting samples and synthesizer presets to foundational mixing practices – and includes analysis and discussion of how various samples and synthesizers work together within an arrangement. Through case studies and online audio examples Shelvock explains how music producers directly modify the sonic characteristics of hip-hop sounds to suit their tastes and elucidates the psychoacoustic and perceptual impact of these aesthetically nuanced music production tasks. Cloud-Based Music Production will be of interest to musicians producers mixers and engineers and also provides essential supplementary reading for music technology courses. | Cloud-Based Music Production Sampling Synthesis and Hip-Hop GBP 36.99 1
Integration of IoT with Cloud Computing for Smart Applications Integration of IoT with Cloud Computing for Smart Applications provides an integrative overview of the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing to be used for the various futuristic and intelligent applications. The aim of this book is to integrate IoT and cloud computing to translate ordinary resources into smart things. Discussions in this book include a broad and integrated perspective on the collaboration security growth of cloud infrastructure and real-time data monitoring. Features: Presents an integrated approach to solve the problems related to security reliability and energy consumption. Explains a unique approach to discuss the research challenges and opportunities in the field of IoT and cloud computing. Discusses a novel approach for smart agriculture smart healthcare systems smart cities and many other modern systems based on machine learning artificial intelligence and big data etc. Information presented in a simplified way for students researchers academicians and scientists business innovators and entrepreneurs management professionals and practitioners. This book can be great reference for graduate and postgraduate students researchers and academicians working in the field of computer science cloud computing artificial intelligence etc. GBP 99.99 1
The Introduction to Private Cloud using Oracle Exadata and Oracle Database Private clouds allow for managing multiple databases under one roof avoiding unnecessary resource management. Private cloud solutions can be applied in sectors such as healthcare retail and software. The Introduction to Private Cloud using Oracle Exadata and Oracle Database will explore the general architecture of private cloud databases with a focus on Oracle’s Exadata database machine. The book describes the private cloud using fundamental-level Exadata and database. Exadata has been Oracle’s pioneer product for almost a decade. In the last few years Oracle has positioned Exadata for customers to consume as a cloud service. This book will provide a timely introduction to Exadata for current and potential Oracle customers and other IT professionals. GBP 18.99 1
NoSQL Database for Storage and Retrieval of Data in Cloud This book discusses the advanced databases for the cloud-based application known as NoSQL. It will explore the recent advancements in NoSQL database technology. Chapters on structured unstructured and hybrid databases will be included to explore bigdata analytics bigdata storage and processing. The book is likely to cover a wide range of topics such as cloud computing social computing bigdata and advanced databases processing techniques. | NoSQL Database for Storage and Retrieval of Data in Cloud GBP 120.00 1
Protecting Information Assets and IT Infrastructure in the Cloud This book is a second edition. The last one reviewed the evolution of the Cloud important Cloud concepts and terminology and the threats that are posed on a daily basis to it. A deep dive into the components of Microsoft Azure were also provided as well as risk mitigation strategies and protecting data that resides in a Cloud environment. In this second edition we extend this knowledge gained to discuss the concepts of Microsoft Azure. We also examine how Microsoft is playing a huge role in artificial intelligence and machine learning with its relationship with OpenAI. An overview into ChatGPT is also provided along with a very serious discussion of the social implications for artificial intelligence. | Protecting Information Assets and IT Infrastructure in the Cloud GBP 44.99 1
Cloud Data Center Network Architectures and Technologies Cloud Data Center Network Architectures and Technologies has been written with the support of Huawei's vast technical knowledge and experience in the data center network (DCN) field as well as its understanding of customer service requirements. This book describes in detail the architecture design technical implementation planning and design and deployment suggestions for cloud DCNs based on the service challenges DCNs encounter. It starts by describing the overall architecture and technical evolution of DCNs with the aim of helping readers understand the development of DCNs. It then proceeds to explain the design and implementation of cloud DCNs including the service model of a single data center (DC) construction of physical and logical networks of DCs construction of multiple DCNs and security solutions of DCs. Next this book dives deep into practices of cloud DCN deployment based on real-world cases to help readers better understand how to build cloud DCNs. Finally this book introduces DCN openness and some of the hottest forward-looking technologies. In summary you can use this book as a reference to help you to build secure reliable efficient and open cloud DCNs. It is intended for technical professionals of enterprises research institutes information departments and DCs as well as teachers and students of computer network-related majors in colleges and universities. Authors Lei Zhang Mr. Zhang is the Chief Architect of Huawei's DCN solution. He has more than 20 years' experience in network product and solution design as well as a wealth of expertise in product design and development network planning and design and network engineering project implementation. He has led the design and deployment of more than 10 large-scale DCNs for Fortune Global 500 companies worldwide. Le Chen Mr. Chen is a Huawei DCN Solution Documentation Engineer with eight years' experience in developing documents related to DCN products and solutions. He has participated in the design and delivery of multiple large-scale enterprise DCNs. Mr. Chen has written many popular technical document series such as DCN Handbook and BGP Topic. GBP 44.99 1
Business Model Transformation The AI & Cloud Technology Revolution A large opportunity exists for Australian organisations to use new and powerful technologies (Artificial intelligence [AI] and Cloud technologies) to transform their businesses to keep pace with or ahead of the leading edge of competitiveness. This book showcases inspirational Australian case studies in order to inspire Australian (and non-Australian) organisations to undertake the challenge. This book synthesises the key learnings and contrasts those with the conventional wisdom on this topic. The book also defines what AI- and Cloud-based business transformations are and what they can do for businesses. Furthermore it explains why it is imperative that businesses should address the business opportunities of these technological advancements without going into the technical details any more than the ‘literacy’ that is necessary for business leaders. Finally it also includes international best practice case studies beyond the usual suspects. This book provides guidance and motivation for business executives managers and students interested in innovating and transforming their businesses through the use of the two critical new technologies. | Business Model Transformation The AI & Cloud Technology Revolution GBP 39.99 1
Cloud IoT Systems for Smart Agricultural Engineering Agriculture plays a vital role in a country’s growth. Modern-day technologies drive every domain toward smart systems. The use of traditional agricultural procedures to satisfy modern-day requirements is a challenging task. Cloud IoT Systems for Smart Agricultural Engineering provides substantial coverage of various challenges of the agriculture domain through modern technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) cloud computing and many more. This book offers various state-of-the-art procedures to be deployed in a wide range of agricultural activities. The concepts are discussed with the necessary implementations and clear examples. Necessary illustrations are depicted in the chapters to ensure the effective delivery of the proposed concepts. It presents the rapid advancement of the technologies in the existing agricultural model by applying the cloud IoT techniques. A wide variety of novel architectural solutions are discussed in various chapters of this book. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the most essential topics including: New approaches on urban and vertical farming Smart crop management for Indian farmers Smart livestock management Precision agriculture using geographical information systems Machine learning techniques combined with IoT for smart agriculture Effective use of drones in smart agriculture This book provides solutions for the diverse domain of problems in agricultural engineering. It can be used at the basic and intermediary levels for agricultural science and engineering graduate students researchers and practitioners. GBP 145.00 1
Biometric Technology Authentication Biocryptography and Cloud-Based Architecture Most biometric books are either extraordinarily technical for technophiles or extremely elementary for the lay person. Striking a balance between the two Biometric Technology: Authentication Biocryptography and Cloud-Based Architecture is ideal for business IT or security managers that are faced with the task of making purchasing migration or adoption decisions. It brings biometrics down to an understandable level so that you can immediately begin to implement the concepts discussed. Exploring the technological and social implications of widespread biometric use the book considers the science and technology behind biometrics as well as how it can be made more affordable for small and medium-sized business. It also presents the results of recent research on how the principles of cryptography can make biometrics more secure. Covering biometric technologies in the cloud including security and privacy concerns the book includes a chapter that serves as a how-to manual on procuring and deploying any type of biometric system. It also includes specific examples and case studies of actual biometric deployments of localized and national implementations in the U. S. and other countries. The book provides readers with a technical background on the various biometric technologies and how they work. Examining optimal application in various settings and their respective strengths and weaknesses it considers ease of use false positives and negatives and privacy and security issues. It also covers emerging applications such as biocryptography. Although the text can be understood by just about anybody it is an ideal resource for corporate-level executives who are considering implementing biometric technologies in their organizations. | Biometric Technology Authentication Biocryptography and Cloud-Based Architecture GBP 31.99 1