Application Level Trust Mechanisms for Enhancing the Operational Trust in a Cloud

Establishing trust in cloud system is a complex and challenging problem. In cloud computing trust establishment has to be both identity and properties based due to its dynamic nature, complexity of infrastructure, automated services, application interdependencies, and diversity of stakeholders. Trust in cloud depends mainly upon two factors. One is the operational trust which deals with the operations of cloud service provider and other is automation of different mechanisms for service providers to provide trust. This paper focus on implementation of different trust mechanisms at application layer of cloud to enhance the operational trust in cloud computing.