Title : 
What´s Special about Cloud Security?
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
US National Institute of Standards and Technology
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Although cloud security concerns have consistently ranked as one of the top challenges to cloud adoption, it´s not clear what security issues are particular to cloud computing. To approach this question, the author attempts to derive cloud security issues from various cloud definitions and a reference architecture.
         
        
            Keywords : 
cloud computing; security of data; software architecture; cloud adoption; cloud computing; cloud security; reference architecture; security issue; Cloud computing; Computer architecture; Computer security; Network security; cloud computing; cloud security;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
IT Professional
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/MITP.2012.84