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What is Data Backup

Chapter 3
Handbook of Research on Securing Cloud-Based Databases with Biometric Applications
It is refers to backing up data to some remote location servers (may be on cloud-based server). Into cloud backup, the data is placed to and accessible from several distributed and connected location that covers a cloud. Data backup into cloud enable cloud consumers to access the data and services remotely and to back up files and data from the cloud consumer’s system or data center to the online storage server.
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Security Architecture for Cloud Computing
Robin Singh Bhadoria (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 25
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6559-0.ch003
Abstract
Clouds need to address three security issues: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Security architecture for cloud computing is designed based on the functional architecture. The approach is to enhance the components of a functional architecture with additional components providing various security services. This is an extension of SaaS concept to have several security components that are common to all application and services. Various cloud security issues are discussed in this chapter.
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