Cloud Advisor - A Framework towards Assessing the Trustworthiness and Transparency of Cloud Providers

We propose a Cloud Advisor framework that couples two salient features: trustworthiness and transparency measurement. It provides a mechanism to measure trustworthiness based on the history of the cloud provider taking into account evidence support and to measure transparency based on the Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) framework. The selection process is based on a set of assurance requirements that if are met by the cloud provider or if it has been considered in a tool it could bring assurance and confidence to cloud customers.