Title :
A Quantitative Analysis of Current Security Concerns and Solutions for Cloud Computing
Author :
Gonzalez, Nelson ; Miers, Charles ; Redígolo, Fernando ; Carvalho, Tereza ; Simplicio, Marcos ; Näslund, Mats ; Pourzandi, Makan
Author_Institution :
Escola Politec. at the Univ. of Sao Paulo (EPUSP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
fDate :
Nov. 29 2011-Dec. 1 2011
Abstract :
The development of cloud computing services is speeding up the rate in which the organizations outsource their computational services or sell their idle computational resources. Even though migrating to the cloud remains a tempting trend from a financial perspective, there are several other aspects that must be taken into account by companies before they decide to do so. One of the most important aspect refers to security: while some cloud computing security issues are inherited from the solutions adopted to create such services, many new security questions that are particular to these solutions also arise, including those related to how the services are organized and which kind of service/data can be placed in the cloud. Aiming to give a better understanding of this complex scenario, in this article we identify and classify the main security concerns and solutions in cloud computing, and propose a taxonomy of security in cloud computing, giving an overview of the current status of security in this emerging technology.
Keywords :
cloud computing; financial management; security of data; cloud computing security issue; cloud computing service; computational resource; computational service; financial perspective; quantitative analysis; security question; security taxonomy; Availability; Cloud computing; Law; Organizations; Security; Taxonomy; cloud computing; network security; taxonomy;
Conference_Titel :
Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), 2011 IEEE Third International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Athens
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0090-2
DOI :
10.1109/CloudCom.2011.39