The SPCLOUD Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Secure Mobile Clouds

• Reliability and Security of Cloud Environments

• Monitoring for Cloud-Based Applications

• Cryptography and Crypto-Protocols for Cloud Computing Systems

• Parallel Computing With Cloud-Based Systems

• Very Large Databases In The Cloud: Transactions, Backup, Security, Scalability

• Security and Virtualization

• Risk Management in Cloud Computing Environments

• Usability and Human Centered Security for Clouds

• Trusted Data Sharing and Shared Technology Issues

• Untrusted Cloud Servers and Networks

• Privacy Protection in Cloud Platforms and Operations

• Autonomic Security in Cloud Computing

• Intercloud Security Issues and Considerations

• Insecure Interfaces and APIs

• Insiders Threats

• Security Models for New Services

• Services Hijacking

• Interoperable Identity Management

• Information Hiding in Cloud Computing

• Forensics in the Clouds

• Cloud Infrastructure Security

• Use of Cloud Systems for Scalable High-performance Computing

• Performance Overhead of Virtualization

• Monitoring of Cloud Systems, Alerts for Resource Consumption

• Identification and Privacy in Clouds

• Secure Mobile Clouds and Privacy Management