Energy-efficient platform-as-a-service security provisioning in the cloud

In this paper we present ENUAGE, a platform as a service security framework for provisioning secure and scalable multi-layered services based on the cloud computing model. ENUAGE ensures the authenticity, integrity, and confidentiality of data communication over the network links by creating a set of security associations between the data-bound components on the presentation layer and their respective data sources on the data persistence layer. ENUAGE encapsulates the security procedures, policies, and mechanisms in these security associations at the service development stage to form a collection of isolated and protected policy-driven security domains. An energy analysis of the system shows, via real energy measurements, major savings in energy consumption on the consumer devices as well as on the cloud servers.