Principles and Pillars of Trustworthy Computing

This chapter overviews the concept of trustworthy computing proposed by Microsoft in 2002 as the Trustworthy Computing Initiative. This concept plays very important role in modern IT in general and in cloud computing in particular. The four pillars of cloud computing are considered – security, privacy, reliability and business integrity. The scheme of the Security Development Lifecycle for developing trustworthy software products, also proposed by Microsoft, is explained.