Special issue Call for Papers: "Security in Cloud Computing" International Journal of Information Security journal, Springer (indexed in SCI-E, IF=0.421) http://www.springer.com/computer/security+and+cryptology/journal/10207 === Guest Editors: -- Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece -- Chris Mitchell, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK -- Bhavani Thuraisingham, University of Texas at Dallas, USA -- Jianying Zhou, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore === Important dates: -- Submission deadline: November 10, 2012 -- Author notification - review comments: January 10, 2013 -- Revised submissions: February 20, 2013 -- Final decision: March 20, 2013 -- Final manuscripts due: April 1, 2013 -- Tentative Publication: Fall 2013 === Topics of interest may include (but are not limited to) one or more of the following themes: -- Auditing in Cloud Computing -- Business and security risk models -- Cloud Infrastructure Security -- Cloud-centric security modeling and threats -- Copyright protection in the Cloud era -- Cryptography in the Cloud era -- Emerging threats in Cloud-based services -- Forensics in Cloud environments -- Legal and regulatory issues in the Cloud era -- Multi-tenancy related security/privacy issues -- Performance evaluation for security solutions -- Privacy in Cloud computing -- Secure identity management mechanisms -- Secure job deployment and scheduling -- Secure virtualization and resource allocation mechanisms -- Securing distributed data storage in the Cloud -- Security and privacy in big data management -- Security and privacy in mobile Cloud -- Security and privacy requirements engineering in the Cloud -- Security for emerging Cloud programming models -- Security management in the Cloud -- Security modelling and threats in Cloud computing -- Trust and policy management in the Cloud -- User authentication and access control in Cloud-aware services