Proceedings of the 2013 international workshop on Security in cloud computing

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the the 2013 International Workshop on Security in Cloud Computing (SCC). Cloud computing has emerged as today's most exciting computing paradigm shift in information technology, since it promises numerous benefits, including lower costs, rapid scaling, easier maintenance, and ubiquitous availability. Meanwhile, cloud computing also raises many security and privacy challenges such as data protection, recovery, privacy, access control, trusted computing, as well as legal issues in areas such as regulatory compliance, auditing, and many others. This workshop aims to bring together the research efforts from both the academia and industry in all security aspects related to cloud computing. This is the first year for our SCC workshop. We received 18 submissions from China, United States, Japan, and Canada. The submissions were reviewed by a technical program committee of 40 experts. The final program contains 9 papers, representing an acceptance rate of 50%. Our program also features a keynote speech "Secure Access to Outsourced Data" by Prof. Robert Deng from Singapore Management University.