Title :
Multitenancy - Security Risks and Countermeasures
Author :
Brown, Wayne J. ; Anderson, Vince ; Tan, Qing
Author_Institution :
Athabasca Univ., Athabasca, AB, Canada
Abstract :
Security within the cloud is of paramount importance as the interest and indeed utilization of cloud computing increase. Multitenancy in particular introduces unique security risks to cloud computing as a result of more than one tenant utilizing the same physical computer hardware and sharing the same software and data. The purpose of this paper is to explore the specific risks in cloud computing due to Multitenancy and the measures that can be taken to mitigate those risks.
Keywords :
cloud computing; risk analysis; security of data; cloud computing; countermeasures; data sharing; multitenancy model; physical computer hardware; security risks; software sharing; Cloud computing; Computational modeling; Encryption; Servers; Cloud Computing; Cloud Security; Multitenancy;
Conference_Titel :
Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS), 2012 15th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2331-4
DOI :
10.1109/NBiS.2012.142
