Complying with Data Handling Requirements in Cloud Storage Systems

In past years, cloud storage systems saw an enormous rise in usage. However, despite their popularity and importance as underlying infrastructure for more complex cloud services, today's cloud storage systems do not account for compliance with regulatory, organizational, or contractual data handling requirements by design. Since legislation increasingly responds to rising data protection and privacy concerns, complying with data handling requirements becomes a crucial property for cloud storage systems. We present PRADA, a practical approach to account for compliance with data handling requirements in key-value based cloud storage systems. To achieve this goal, PRADA introduces a transparent data handling layer, which empowers clients to request specific data handling requirements and enables operators of cloud storage systems to comply with them. We implement PRADA on top of the distributed database Cassandra and show in our evaluation that complying with data handling requirements in cloud storage systems is practical in real-world cloud deployments as used for microblogging, data sharing in the Internet of Things, and distributed email storage.Comment: 14 pages, 11 figures; revised manuscript, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computin

A Curriculum for the Body of Knowledge in Open Finance

This paper addresses an identified skills gap in graduates who are entering the Open Finance workplace. The latter is a new sub sector of finance centered on the use of third-party permissioned data. We address the concern that such graduates lack commercial awareness and relevant financial work experience. We build on the Curricular Domains Model. This expresses the curriculum as knowledge, action and self-domain. We first identify the needs of employers through an embedded researcher approach in collaboration with the Smart Data Foundry. We then apply an Integrated Curriculum Design Framework (ICDF) to the findings in order to develop a transdisciplinary curriculum that can be applied to a master’s degree program. Our contribution is in facilitating a systemic combination of the finance and computing disciplines to create a new one that addresses this field. We believe our proposed educational offering can assist with the challenges that are presented by the adoption of Open Finance