scholarly journals Next-Generation Blockchain-Enabled Virtualized Cloud Security Solutions: Review and Open Challenges

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (20) ◽  
pp. 2493
Author(s):  
Mueen Uddin ◽  
Anjum Khalique ◽  
Awais Khan Jumani ◽  
Syed Sajid Ullah ◽  
Saddam Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
End Users ◽  
Resource Provisioning ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Cloud Service Providers ◽  
Data Centres

Cloud computing is a well-known technology that provides flexible, efficient, and cost-effective IT solutions for multinationals to offer improved and enhanced quality of business services to end-users. The cloud computing paradigm is instigated from the grid and parallel computing models. It uses virtualization, server consolidation, utility computing, and other computing technologies and models for providing better IT solutions for large-scale computational data centres. It encompasses different services for supporting data storage, networking, and computing for facilities and amenities for businesses and multinational corporations. The enormous elastic on-demand cloud provisioning resources and services and datasets are processed and stored in tier-level virtualized cloud data centres operated by third-party service providers called cloud owners. The primary issue with these cloud service providers is to provide and maintain data security, privacy, and confidentiality and service availability and data support for end-users. This paper reviews, highlights, and discusses some of the common cloud computing vulnerabilities primarily related to virtualization platforms and their implementations while outsourcing services and resources to different end-users and business enterprises. We then provided blockchain-enabled solutions for virtualized cloud platforms involving both the end-users and cloud service providers (CSP) to address and solve various security and privacy-related vulnerabilities. These solutions will help the data centre industry to improve its virtualized cloud services and resource provisioning facilities. Finally, we discussed different blockchain-related implementation challenges in cloud infrastructures.

scholarly journals Next-generation Blockchain-Enabled Virtualized Cloud Security Solutions: Review and Open Challenges

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mueen Uddin ◽  
Anjum Khalique ◽  
Awais Khan Jumani
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
End Users ◽  
Resource Provisioning ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Computing Platform ◽  
Cloud Service Providers ◽  
Cloud Computing Platform

This paper reviews, discusses, and highlights some of the standard cloud computing vulnerabilities primarily related to virtualization platforms and their implementations while outsourcing services and resources to different end-users and business enterprises. Furthermore, we provide Blockchain-enabled solutions for virtualized cloud computing platform involving both the end-users as well as cloud service providers (CSP) to address and solve different security and privacy-related vulnerabilities using blockchain-enabled solutions to improve their cloud services and resource provisioning facilities.

scholarly journals Next-generation Blockchain-Enabled Virtualized Cloud Security Solutions: Review and Open Challenges

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mueen Uddin ◽  
Anjum Khalique ◽  
Awais Khan Jumani
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
End Users ◽  
Resource Provisioning ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Computing Platform ◽  
Cloud Service Providers ◽  
Cloud Computing Platform

This paper reviews, discusses, and highlights some of the standard cloud computing vulnerabilities primarily related to virtualization platforms and their implementations while outsourcing services and resources to different end-users and business enterprises. Furthermore, we provide Blockchain-enabled solutions for virtualized cloud computing platform involving both the end-users as well as cloud service providers (CSP) to address and solve different security and privacy-related vulnerabilities using blockchain-enabled solutions to improve their cloud services and resource provisioning facilities.

SECURITY IN CLOUD COMPUTING IN INDIAN GOVERNMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nitin Vishnu Choudhari ◽  
Dr. Ashish B Sasankar
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Cloud Security ◽  
End Users ◽  
Security Architecture ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
End User ◽  
Cloud Service Providers

Abstract –Today Security issue is the topmost problem in the cloud computing environment. It leads to serious discomfort to the Governance and end-users. Numerous security solutions and policies are available however practically ineffective in use. Most of the security solutions are centered towards cloud technology and cloud service providers only and no consideration has been given to the Network, accessing, and device securities at the end-user level. The discomfort at the end-user level was left untreated. The security of the various public, private networks, variety of devices used by end-users, accessibility, and capacity of end-users is left untreated. This leads towards the strong need for the possible modification of the security architecture for data security at all levels and secured service delivery. This leads towards the strong need for the possible adaption of modified security measures and provisions, which shall provide secured hosting and service delivery at all levels and reduce the security gap between the cloud service providers and end-users. This paper investigates the study and analyze the security architecture in the Cloud environment of Govt. of India and suggest the modifications in the security architecture as per the changing scenario and to fulfill the future needs for the secured service delivery from central up to the end-user level. Keywords: Cloud Security, Security in GI Cloud, Cloud Security measures, Security Assessment in GI Cloud, Proposed Security for GI cloud

scholarly journals АНАЛИЗ ПОДХОДОВ К ОБЕСПЕЧЕНИЮ БЕЗОПАСНОСТИ ОБЛАЧНЫХ СЕРВИСОВ

2020 ◽  
pp. 70-82
Author(s):  
Вячеслав Вікторович Фролов
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Cloud Infrastructure ◽  
Critical System ◽  
Cloud Service Providers ◽  
Safety And Reliability ◽  
Cloud Resources

The article is devoted to the analysis of modern approaches that ensure the security of cloud services. Since cloud computing is one of the fastest growing areas among information technology, it is extremely important to ensure the safety and reliability of processes occurring in the clouds and to secure the interaction between the client and the provider of cloud services. Given that fears about data loss and their compromise are one of the main reasons that some companies do not transfer their calculations to the clouds. The object of research and analysis of this work are cloud services, which are provided by various cloud service providers. The aim of the study of this work is to compare existing approaches that provide information security for cloud services, as well as offer a new approach based on the principle of diversity. There are many approaches that ensure their safety, using both traditional and cloud-specific. The multi-cloud approach is one of the most promising strategies for improving reliability by reserving cloud resources on the servers of various cloud service providers. It is shown that it is necessary to use diversity to ensure the reliability and safety of critical system components. The principle of diversity is to use a unique version of each resource thanks to a special combination of a cloud computing provider, the geographical location of data centers, cloud service presentation models, and cloud infrastructure deployment models. The differences between cloud providers and which combination of services are preferable to others in terms of productivity are discussed in detail. In addition, best practices for securing cloud resources are reviewed. As a result, this paper concludes that there is a problem of insufficient security and reliability of cloud computing and how to reduce threats in order to avoid a common cause failure and, as a result, loss of confidential data or system downtime using diversity of cloud services.

An Analysis on the Terms and Conditions of the Clickwrap Agreement and the Benefits of Maintaining the Click Wrap Agreement in Cloud Computing

2022 ◽  
pp. 205-224
Author(s):  
Dhiviya Ram
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Service Provider ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
End User ◽  
Cloud Service Provider ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Cloud Service Providers ◽  
Provider Perspective

One of the most unique forms of contracting is apparent in cloud computing. Cloud computing, unlike other conventional methods, has adopted a different approach in the formation of binding contract that will be used for the governance of the cloud. This method is namely the clickwrap agreement. Click wrap agreement follows a take it or leave it basis in which the end users are provided with limited to no option in terms of having a say on the contract that binds them during the use of cloud services. The terms found in the contract are often cloud service provider friendly and will be less favourable to the end user. In this article, the authors examine the terms that are often found in the cloud computing agreement as well as study the benefit that is entailed in adopting this contracting method. This chapter has undertaken a qualitative study that comprises interviews of cloud service providers in Malaysia. Hence, this study is a novel approach that also provides insight in terms of the cloud service provider perspective regarding the click wrap agreement.

SLA (Service Level Agreement) Driven Orchestration Based New Methodology for Cloud Computing Services

2013 ◽  
Vol 660 ◽  
pp. 196-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Irfan ◽  
Zhu Hong ◽  
Nueraimaiti Aimaier ◽  
Zhu Guo Li
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Service Level Agreement ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Computing Services ◽  
Cloud Service Providers ◽  
Cloud Computing Services

Cloud Computing is not a revolution; it’s an evolution of computer science and technology emerging by leaps and bounds, in order to merge all computer science tools and technologies. Cloud Computing technology is hottest to do research and explore new horizons of next generations of Computer Science. There are number of cloud services providers (Amazon EC2), Rackspace Cloud, Terremark and Google Compute Engine) but still enterprises and common users have a number of concerns over cloud service providers. Still there is lot of weakness, challenges and issues are barrier for cloud service providers in order to provide cloud services according to SLA (Service Level agreement). Especially, service provisioning according to SLAs is core objective of each cloud service provider with maximum performance as per SLA. We have identified those challenges issues, as well as proposed new methodology as “SLA (Service Level Agreement) Driven Orchestration Based New Methodology for Cloud Computing Services”. Currently, cloud service providers are using “orchestrations” fully or partially to automate service provisioning but we are trying to integrate and drive orchestration flows from SLAs. It would be new approach to provision cloud service and deliver cloud service as per SLA, satisfying QoS standards.

scholarly journals Secure and Selective Cloud Data Auditing using Deep Machine Learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 5471-5479
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Data Centre ◽  
Cloud Service Providers ◽  
Characteristics Analysis ◽  
Data Centres

The tradition of moving applications, data to be consumed by the applications and the data generated by the applications is increasing and the increase is due to the advantages of cloud computing. The advantages of cloud computing are catered to the application owners, application consumers and at the same time to the cloud datacentre owners or the cloud service providers also. Since IT tasks are vital for business progression, it for the most part incorporates repetitive or reinforcement segments and framework for power supply, data correspondences associations, natural controls and different security gadgets. An extensive data centre is a mechanical scale task utilizing as much power as a community. The primary advantage of pushing the applications on the cloud-based data centres are low infrastructure maintenance with significant cost reduction for the application owners and the high profitability for the data centre cloud service providers. During the application migration to the cloud data centres, the data and few components of the application become exposed to certain users. Also, the applications, which are hosted on the cloud data centres must comply with the certain standards for being accepted by various application consumers. In order to achieve the standard certifications, the applications and the data must be audited by various auditing companies. Few of the cases, the auditors are hired by the data centre owners and few of times, the auditors are engaged by application consumers. Nonetheless, in both situations, the auditors are third party and the risk of exposing business logics in the applications and the data always persists. Nevertheless, the auditor being a third-party user, the data exposure is a high risk. Also, in a data centre environment, it is highly difficult to ensure isolation of the data from different auditors, who may not be have the right to audit the data. Significant number of researches have attempted to provide a generic solution to this problem. However, the solutions are highly criticized by the research community for making generic assumptions during the permission verification process. Henceforth, this work produces a novel machine learning based algorithm to assign or grant audit access permissions to specific auditors in a random situation without other approvals based on the characteristics of the virtual machine, in which the application and the data is deployed, and the auditing user entity. The results of the proposed algorithm are highly satisfactory and demonstrates nearly 99% accuracy on data characteristics analysis, nearly 98% accuracy on user characteristics analysis and 100% accuracy on secure auditor selection process

Security in Cloud Computing

2012 ◽  
pp. 208-221
Author(s):  
Alpana M. Desai ◽  
Kenrick Mock
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
Cloud Service Providers ◽  
International Data ◽  
It Executives ◽  
Privacy Issues

Cloud computing has recently emerged in prominence and is being rapidly adopted by organizations because of its potential and perceived benefits of flexibility and affordability. According to surveys conducted in 2008 and 2009 by International Data Corporation (IDC) of IT executives and CIOs, security was cited as the top concern for the adoption of cloud computing. Enterprises that plan to utilize cloud services for their infrastructure, platform, and/or software needs must understand the security risks and privacy issues related to cloud computing. This chapter discusses the technical, legal, and policy/organizational security risks of cloud computing, and reviews recommendations/strategies for managing and mitigating security threats in cloud computing. It also presents vendor-specific solutions and strategies that cloud service providers are implementing for mitigating security risks in cloud computing.

scholarly journals Implementing Fuzzy TOPSIS in Cloud Type and Service Provider Selection

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aveek Basu ◽  
Sanchita Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Service Provider ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Multicriteria Decision Making ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Fuzzy Topsis ◽  
End Users ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
Cloud Service Providers

Cloud computing can be considered as one of the leading-edge technological advances in the current IT industry. Cloud computing or simply cloud is attributed to the Service Oriented Architecture. Every organization is trying to utilize the benefit of cloud not only to reduce the cost overhead in infrastructure, network, hardware, software, etc., but also to provide seamless service to end users with the benefit of scalability. The concept of multitenancy assists cloud service providers to leverage the costs by providing services to multiple users/companies at the same time via shared resource. There are several cloud service providers currently in the market and they are rapidly changing and reorienting themselves as per market demand. In order to gain market share, the cloud service providers are trying to provide the latest technology to end users/customers with the reduction of costs. In such scenario, it becomes extremely difficult for cloud customers to select the best service provider as per their requirement. It is also becoming difficult to decide upon the deployment model to choose among the existing ones. The deployment models are suitable for different companies. There exist divergent criteria for different deployment models which are not tailor made for an organization. As a cloud customer, it is difficult to decide on the model and determine the appropriate service provider. The multicriteria decision making method is applied to find out the best suitable service provider among the top existing four companies and choose the deployment model as per requirement.

scholarly journals Multi-Cloud: A Comprehensive Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamza Ali Imran ◽  
Usama Latif ◽  
Ataul Aziz Ikram ◽  
Maryam Ehsan ◽  
Ahmed Jamal Ikram ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
End Users ◽  
End User ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Cloud Service Providers ◽  
Multiple Clouds ◽  
Multi Cloud ◽  
Internal Architecture

<div>In the span of a decade, innovations in cloud computing have led to a new understanding of computing to be used as a utility. Majority of cloud service providers are making the service better and competitive for end-user. Aside from the number of services introduced by these providers, users are feeling uneasy and are unaware of consequences while switching from one service to another. Internal architecture of the cloud makes it difficult for end-users to understand. To overcome this issue a new concept of multi-cloud has been introduced. In multi-cloud technology, we can use multiple clouds from different vendors without platform complexity. Hence summarized, Multi-cloud is the usage of autonomous cloud platforms with one interface which may clue to different administrative and implementation domains. This paper reviews the literature of recently presented solutions and architectures for multi-cloud platforms.</div>

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