BU Today: Securing the Cloud
The Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC), a one-of-a-kind marketplace model for customizable public cloud offerings now being built a team of researchers from BU and several other universities, may soon claim another first: a modular cybersecurity system built from smaller, separate functional components, each asserting its own security individually. As a result, the security of the system as a whole will be derived from the security of its components, rather than from a single firewall, as is currently the case with most cloud systems.