Cloud Computing
The SEI studies cloud computing to help government agencies securely modernize their systems and to make cloud capabilities available to warfighters at the tactical edge.
Blog Posts
Operation Cloud Hopper Case Study
In December, a grand jury indicted members of the APT10 group for a tactical campaign known as Operation Cloud Hopper, a global series of sustained attacks against managed service providers …
• By Nathaniel Richmond
In Cloud Computing
Deep Learning, Agile-DevOps, and Cloud Security: The Top 10 Blog Posts of 2018
Every January on the SEI Blog, we present the 10 most-visited posts of the previous year. This year's top 10, which features posts published between January 1, 2018, and December …
• By Douglas C. Schmidt
In Cloud Computing
Best Practices for Cloud Security
As detailed in last week's post, SEI researchers recently identified a collection of vulnerabilities and risks faced by organizations moving data and applications to the cloud....
• By Donald Faatz
In Cloud Computing
Head in the Clouds
The transition from on-premises information systems to cloud services represents a significant, and sometimes uncomfortable, new way of working for organizations....
• By Matthew Butkovic
In Cloud Computing
Establishing Trust in Disconnected Environments
First responders, search-and-rescue teams, and military personnel often work in "tactical edge" environments defined by limited computing resources, rapidly changing mission requirements, high levels of stress, and limited connectivity. In …
• By Grace Lewis
In Cloud Computing
Tactical Cloudlets: Moving Cloud Computing to the Edge
Soldiers in battle or emergency workers responding to a disaster often find themselves in environments with limited computing resources, rapidly-changing mission requirements, high levels of stress, and limited connectivity, which …
• By Grace Lewis
In Cloud Computing
The Latest Research from the SEI
As part of an ongoing effort to keep you informed about our latest work, I would like to let you know about some recently published SEI technical reports and notes. …
• By Douglas C. Schmidt
In Cloud Computing
Application Virtualization for Cloudlet-Based Cyber-Foraging at the Edge
Soldiers and emergency workers who carry smartphones in the battlefield, or into disaster recovery sites (such as Boston following the marathon bombing earlier this year) often encounter environments characterized by …
• By Grace Lewis
In Cloud Computing
Standards in Cloud Computing Interoperability
In 2011, Col. Timothy Hill, director of the Futures Directorate within the Army Intelligence and Security Command, urged industry to take a more open-standards approach to cloud computing. "Interoperability between …
• By Grace Lewis
In Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing at the Tactical Edge
Cloudlets, which are lightweight servers running one or more virtual machines (VMs), allow soldiers in the field to offload resource-consumptive and battery-draining computations from their handheld devices to nearby cloudlets. …
• By Grace Lewis
In Cloud Computing