Cloud computing provides data storage and access to computing resources over the internet. However, it also faces security issues such as data breaches and theft. The three main cloud service models - SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS - each have different security risks. SaaS provides the least user control but most security, while IaaS gives users the most control over security. Common security issues across models include weak access controls, data leakage through shared infrastructure, and reliance on third party security measures beyond the user's control.
This Presentation provides a detailed insight about Collaborating Using Cloud Services Email Communication over the Cloud - CRM Management – Project Management-Event
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Presentation – Spreadsheet - Databases – Desktop - Social Networks and Groupware.
IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSR-JCE) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of computer engineering and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in computer technology. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
Privacy Issues of Cloud Computing in the Federal SectorLew Oleinick
Presentation describing potential privacy issues of implementing cloud computing in the Federal market.
NOTE: Presentation does NOT reflect any official agency position. All views expressed are my own.
This presentation will give complete information regarding security issues related to cloud computing. To learn cloud computing fill up a simple form.
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This Presentation provides a detailed insight about Collaborating Using Cloud Services Email Communication over the Cloud - CRM Management – Project Management-Event
Management - Task Management – Calendar - Schedules - Word Processing –
Presentation – Spreadsheet - Databases – Desktop - Social Networks and Groupware.
IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSR-JCE) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of computer engineering and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in computer technology. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
Privacy Issues of Cloud Computing in the Federal SectorLew Oleinick
Presentation describing potential privacy issues of implementing cloud computing in the Federal market.
NOTE: Presentation does NOT reflect any official agency position. All views expressed are my own.
This presentation will give complete information regarding security issues related to cloud computing. To learn cloud computing fill up a simple form.
http://bit.ly/aDegGN
Security in Clouds: Cloud security challenges – Software as a
Service Security, Common Standards: The Open Cloud Consortium – The Distributed management Task Force – Standards for application Developers – Standards for Messaging – Standards for Security, End user access to cloud computing, Mobile Internet devices and the cloud. Hadoop – MapReduce – Virtual Box — Google App Engine – Programming Environment for Google App Engine.
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With developers and business leaders driving the charge into cloud computing, where does this leave the IT department and, to put it bluntly, me, the sysadmin? Fear not, IT operation skills are highly relevant and in demand in the cloud era, but it might take a little repositioning on your part to get the opportunity. In this session, Forrester analyst James Staten shares how the leading sysadmins are engaging the business on their cloud journey and what they have done to evolve their role, advance their skills, and position themselves as IT change agents and leaders for the next generation.
In the last few years, cloud computing has grown from being a promising business concept to one of the fastest growing segments of the IT industry. Now, recession-hit companies are increasingly realizing that simply by tapping into the cloud they can gain fast access to best-of-breed business applications or drastically boost their infrastructure resources, all at negligible cost. But as more and more information on individuals and companies is placed in the cloud, concerns are beginning to grow about just how safe an environment it is. This paper discusses security issues, requirements and challenges that cloud service providers (CSP) face during cloud engineering. Recommended security standards and management models to address these are suggested for technical and business community.
This presentation provides a detailed coverage on Cloud services: Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, Database as a Service, Monitoring as a Service, Communication as Services. Service providers- Google, Amazon, Microsoft Azure, IBM, Sales force.
Introduction to Cloud Computing and SecurityOran Epelbaum
The goal of this talk is to introduce people with some IT knowledge to cloud computing and security.
We discuss:
- Benefits of using compute resources in the cloud
- Public cloud providers and some adoption statistics
- Drill down a bit into core AWS IaaS services
- Brief discussion of some security concerns and suggested security practices
The introduction of cloud computing and cloud sourcing requires an appropriate cloud governance strcuture to ensure a secured computing environment and to comply with all relevant organizational information technology policies. As such, organizations need a set of cloud governance capabilities that are essential when effectively implementing and managing cloud services.
In looking at the legitimate ramifications of protection and cloud registering, it is imperative to see a portion of the foundation. Right now, will look at a portion of the specialized foundation of the present innovations before examining distributed computing and its focal points and disservices in more detail. We will likewise present some lawful issues that emerge in the cloud setting and quickly audit different calls for activity that have sounded with regard to the cloud, for example, calls for revising enactment, proposing enactment, or calling for gauges or expanded straightforwardness.
The aim of this paper is to make cloud service consumer aware about cloud computing fundamentals, its essential services, service models and deployment options. This also through light on security and risk management piece of CSA trusted cloud reference architecture, cloud control matrix and notorious nine threats and ENISAs top risks to cloud computing. At the end it talks about certifications and attestation part.
A proficient 5 c approach to boost the security in the saas model's technical...ijccsa
For anything that involves delivering hosted services over the internet is cloud computing.These services
are classified as: IaaS,SaaS,PaaS.This paper focuses on SaaS security measures. SaaS is a cloud based
productivity suite that helps the business people to connect and work from anywhere on any device. The
data solely dumped behind a corporate firewall and it is physically accessed by the people through VPN
system or through online.The only hurdle while adopting cloud computing is the lack of security.It is a
major issue in the cloud for data as well as application and the platform. This paper gives an efficient
approach named 5C approach for applying security under SaaSmodel.Itmainly focuses on authentication
and authorization for customer data under SaaS in the cloud. The 5C mainly uses initial user level security
in the architecture of SaaS server by integrating the Visual Guard Web Admin Console with other controls.
Security for Effective Data Storage in Multi CloudsEditor IJCATR
Cloud Computing is a technology that uses the internet and central remote servers to maintain data and
applications. Cloud computing allows consumers and businesses to use applications without installation and access their personal
files at any computer with internet access. This technology allows for much more efficient computing by centralizing data
storage, processing and bandwidth. The use of cloud computing has increased rapidly in many organizations. Cloud computing
provides many benefits in terms of low cost and accessibility of data. Ensuring the security of cloud computing is a major factor
in the cloud computing environment, as users often store sensitive information with cloud storage providers but these providers
may be untrusted. Dealing with “single cloud” providers is predicted to become less popular with customers due to risks of
service availability failure and the possibility of malicious insiders in the single cloud. A movement towards “multi-clouds”, or in
other words, “interclouds” or “cloud-of clouds” has emerged recently. This paper surveys recent research related to single and
multi-cloud security and addresses possible solutions. It is found that the research into the use of multicloud providers to maintain
security has received less attention from the research community than has the use of single clouds. This work aims to promote the
use of multi-clouds due to its ability to reduce security risks that affect the cloud computing user.
Security in Clouds: Cloud security challenges – Software as a
Service Security, Common Standards: The Open Cloud Consortium – The Distributed management Task Force – Standards for application Developers – Standards for Messaging – Standards for Security, End user access to cloud computing, Mobile Internet devices and the cloud. Hadoop – MapReduce – Virtual Box — Google App Engine – Programming Environment for Google App Engine.
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With developers and business leaders driving the charge into cloud computing, where does this leave the IT department and, to put it bluntly, me, the sysadmin? Fear not, IT operation skills are highly relevant and in demand in the cloud era, but it might take a little repositioning on your part to get the opportunity. In this session, Forrester analyst James Staten shares how the leading sysadmins are engaging the business on their cloud journey and what they have done to evolve their role, advance their skills, and position themselves as IT change agents and leaders for the next generation.
In the last few years, cloud computing has grown from being a promising business concept to one of the fastest growing segments of the IT industry. Now, recession-hit companies are increasingly realizing that simply by tapping into the cloud they can gain fast access to best-of-breed business applications or drastically boost their infrastructure resources, all at negligible cost. But as more and more information on individuals and companies is placed in the cloud, concerns are beginning to grow about just how safe an environment it is. This paper discusses security issues, requirements and challenges that cloud service providers (CSP) face during cloud engineering. Recommended security standards and management models to address these are suggested for technical and business community.
This presentation provides a detailed coverage on Cloud services: Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, Database as a Service, Monitoring as a Service, Communication as Services. Service providers- Google, Amazon, Microsoft Azure, IBM, Sales force.
Introduction to Cloud Computing and SecurityOran Epelbaum
The goal of this talk is to introduce people with some IT knowledge to cloud computing and security.
We discuss:
- Benefits of using compute resources in the cloud
- Public cloud providers and some adoption statistics
- Drill down a bit into core AWS IaaS services
- Brief discussion of some security concerns and suggested security practices
The introduction of cloud computing and cloud sourcing requires an appropriate cloud governance strcuture to ensure a secured computing environment and to comply with all relevant organizational information technology policies. As such, organizations need a set of cloud governance capabilities that are essential when effectively implementing and managing cloud services.
In looking at the legitimate ramifications of protection and cloud registering, it is imperative to see a portion of the foundation. Right now, will look at a portion of the specialized foundation of the present innovations before examining distributed computing and its focal points and disservices in more detail. We will likewise present some lawful issues that emerge in the cloud setting and quickly audit different calls for activity that have sounded with regard to the cloud, for example, calls for revising enactment, proposing enactment, or calling for gauges or expanded straightforwardness.
The aim of this paper is to make cloud service consumer aware about cloud computing fundamentals, its essential services, service models and deployment options. This also through light on security and risk management piece of CSA trusted cloud reference architecture, cloud control matrix and notorious nine threats and ENISAs top risks to cloud computing. At the end it talks about certifications and attestation part.
A proficient 5 c approach to boost the security in the saas model's technical...ijccsa
For anything that involves delivering hosted services over the internet is cloud computing.These services
are classified as: IaaS,SaaS,PaaS.This paper focuses on SaaS security measures. SaaS is a cloud based
productivity suite that helps the business people to connect and work from anywhere on any device. The
data solely dumped behind a corporate firewall and it is physically accessed by the people through VPN
system or through online.The only hurdle while adopting cloud computing is the lack of security.It is a
major issue in the cloud for data as well as application and the platform. This paper gives an efficient
approach named 5C approach for applying security under SaaSmodel.Itmainly focuses on authentication
and authorization for customer data under SaaS in the cloud. The 5C mainly uses initial user level security
in the architecture of SaaS server by integrating the Visual Guard Web Admin Console with other controls.
Security for Effective Data Storage in Multi CloudsEditor IJCATR
Cloud Computing is a technology that uses the internet and central remote servers to maintain data and
applications. Cloud computing allows consumers and businesses to use applications without installation and access their personal
files at any computer with internet access. This technology allows for much more efficient computing by centralizing data
storage, processing and bandwidth. The use of cloud computing has increased rapidly in many organizations. Cloud computing
provides many benefits in terms of low cost and accessibility of data. Ensuring the security of cloud computing is a major factor
in the cloud computing environment, as users often store sensitive information with cloud storage providers but these providers
may be untrusted. Dealing with “single cloud” providers is predicted to become less popular with customers due to risks of
service availability failure and the possibility of malicious insiders in the single cloud. A movement towards “multi-clouds”, or in
other words, “interclouds” or “cloud-of clouds” has emerged recently. This paper surveys recent research related to single and
multi-cloud security and addresses possible solutions. It is found that the research into the use of multicloud providers to maintain
security has received less attention from the research community than has the use of single clouds. This work aims to promote the
use of multi-clouds due to its ability to reduce security risks that affect the cloud computing user.
Security of Data in Cloud Environment Using DPaaSIJMER
The rapid development of cloud computing is giving way to more cloud services, due to
which security of services of cloud especially data confidentiality protection, becomes more critical.
Cloud computing is an emerging computing style which provides dynamic services, scalable and payper-use.
Although cloud computing provides numerous advantages, a key challenge is how to ensure
and build confidence that the cloud can handle user data securely. This paper highlights some major
security issues that exist in current cloud computing environments. The status of the development of
cloud computing security, the data privacy analysis, security audit, information check and another
challenges that the cloud computing security faces have been explored. The recent researches on data
protection regarding security and privacy issues in cloud computing have partially addressed some
issues. The best option is to build data-protection solutions at the platform layer. The growing appeal
of data protection as a service is that it enables to access just the resources you need at minimal
upfront expense while providing the benefits of enterprise-class data protection capabilities. The
paper proposes a solution to make existing developed applications for simple cloud Systems
compatible with DPaaS. The various security challenges have been highlighted and the various
necessary metrics required for designing DPaaS have been investigated.
The text defines three service layers when describing Cloud Computin.pdfarihanthtextiles
The text defines three service layers when describing Cloud Computing. Identify and describe
these three service layers. Which Service Layer is most likely to be consumed via Public Cloud
service and why? You need to defend your answer.
Solution
First we’ll go high level. Cloud is made feasible through the deployment and interoperability of
three platform types. These three layers are:
IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service
PaaS - Platform as a Service
SaaS - Software as a Service
Now this stack is easily broken down as follows: Think of the “Infrastructure-as-a-Service” as
the road. It’s the basis for communication. It’s the bottom layer that you build your platform on.
The platform are the cars traveling on the infrastructure. PaaS rides on IaaS. But on the top of
that, the goods and passengers inside the cars are the SaaS. It’s the end user experience. It’s the
end result. Let’s take that a step further.
1) Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Cloud Providers offering Infrastructure as a Service tout data-center space, and servers; as well
as network equipment such as routers/switches and software for businesses. These data-centers
are fully outsourced, you need not lift a finger, upgrade an IOS or re-route data. Although this is
the base layer, it allows for scalability and reliability; as well as better security than an
organization may have in a local co-lo or local datacenter. In addition, these services are charged
as utilities, so you pay for what you use, like your water, electric and gas. Depending on your
capacity or usage, your payment is a variable.
Because the IaaS vendors purchase equipment in such bulk, you, Mr. Customer, get the best gear
for the lowest price. Hence, the financial benefits of IaaS are cheaper access to infrastructure.
With the pay-as-you-go model, instead of investing in a fixed capacity infrastructure, which will
either fall short or exceed the organizational need, customers are able to save quite a bit of coin.
Buying hardware that’s barely used is a waste of hardware, air conditioning, space and power.
Operational expenses versus Capital expenses: Cloud is better. Because these computing
resources are basically used and paid for like a utility they can be paid via the operating
expenditures budget versus being paid for via capital investments. In other words, instead of
depreciating the gear over three years, you’re able to expense the monthly charge this year. And
the next year. And the year after that. It’s an elastic service.
1.1)
Application-level security
This level is primarily about identity and access management. Your best investment here isn’t
financial; it’s a policy that limits the ability of users to deploy cloud applications without IT’s
knowledge.
After ensuring policies are in place that offer IT visibility, the next step is to invest in multifactor
authentication and identity management. The first approach uses two or more devices or
applications to permit access. For example, a verification cod.
Methodologies for Enhancing Data Integrity and Security in Distributed Cloud ...IIJSRJournal
Usually, cloud infrastructure is used individually by businesses, whereas the hybrid cloud would be a blend of two or many kinds of clouds. Because as clouds become increasingly common, safety issues also expanding. Because of such cybersecurity threats, numerous experts suggested procedures as well as ways to assure internet confidentiality. Providers of cloud-based services were accountable for the complete safety of cloud information. Nevertheless, since the clouds are accessible (easily accessible over the World wide web), much research has been conducted on cloud storage cybersecurity. This paper describes methods for enhancing security and reliability in decentralized cloud-based solutions, as well as suggests a few security solution methods of implementation.
Cloud Computing Applications and Benefits for Small Businesses .docxclarebernice
Cloud Computing: Applications and Benefits for Small Businesses
Abstract
Cloud computing is one of the most talked about topics in the world of technology and entrepreneurship. Until now it has never been so easy for people, especially small business owner’s, to have the tools and resources readily available just one click away and at the fraction of the cost of the typical investment a few years back. Cloud computing offers cost-effective solutions at various levels that can be customize to meet the needs of anyone. Cloud computing can be thought of as a new found technology and this paper defines the concept of the cloud and provides a brief background of where most business are in regards to the use of this technology. This is then continued by describing the types of cloud currently available and potential use. The paper then presents a short but important section of cloud security issues and challenges. Finally, the paper discusses the benefits each of the different levels of cloud computing can provide small business.
Introduction
The use of cloud computing has grown exponentially in the last decade, according to Weins (2015) eight-four percent of enterprises that make use of such services in one way or another. Could computing by definition is internet-based computing, where by shared resources, software and information are provided to the end user as metered services much like a utility does(Bradley, 2014). For businesses in many cases could computing is use for IT solution purposes as it can provide IT-related capabilities as a service using internet technologies.
With the fast pace of today’s market businesses need to provide fast and reliable services to their customers in order to remain competitive. The concept of could computing is not something new as it uses existing technology and processes; however it can be consider new in sense that using these technologies has revolutionized the manner in which we host and cater services to customers. Startup companies and small businesses can take advantage of could computing to reduce spending on IT, be more adept to changes in the market, change scale and lower risk and cost.
Given the structural complexity of larger organization, Alijani (2014) states that it is essential for cloud computing to deliver rear value rather than serve as a platform for simple task. The need to deliver rear value is just as important for small businesses. For small businesses value is important but it’s their customer relationship and public image, flexibility and continuity. As such small business owners need to consider the benefits, drawback s and the effect of cloud computing on their organization before taking the decision to implement.
Types of cloud computing
There are three categories or levels cloud computing, this are: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).
Infrastructure as a Service (I ...
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Public Key Encryption algorithms Enabling Efficiency Using SaaS in Cloud Comp...Editor IJMTER
The Most great challenging in Cloud computing is Security. Here Security plays key role
in this paper proposed concept mainly deals with security at the end user access. While coming to the
end user access that are connected through the public networks. Here the end user wants to access his
application or services protected by the unauthorized persons. In this area if we want to apply
encryption or decryption methods such as RSA, 3DES, MD5, Blow fish. Etc.,
Whereas we can utilize these services at the end user access in cloud computing. Here there is
problem of encryption and decryption of the messages, services and applications. They are is lot of
time to take encrypt as well as decrypt and more number of processing capabilities are needed to use
the mechanism. For that problem we are introducing to use of cloud computing in SaaS model. i.e.,
scalable is applicable in this area so whenever it requires we can utilize the SaaS model.
In Cloud computing use of computing resources (hardware and software) that are delivered as a
service over Internet network. In advance earlier there is problem of using key size in various
algorithm like 64 bit it take some long period to encrypt the data.
Why cloud computing:
Cloud computing can be a cheaper, faster, and greener alternative to an On-premises solution. Without any infrastructure
investments, you can get Powerful software and massive computing resources quickly—with lower Up-front costs and fewer
management headaches down the road. Cloud-based solutions when evaluating options for new IT deployments Whenever a
secure, reliable, cost-effective cloud option exists. Shifting your agency into the cloud can be a big decision, with many
Considerations. This guide is the first in a series designed to help you Get started. The most important is the right choice
software as a service as a service, infrastructure as a service, and platform as a service or hybrid cloud. While addressing
administration goals of scalable, interactive citizen Portals. The cloud can also help your agency increase collaboration across
Organizations, deliver volumes of data to citizens in useful ways, and reduce IT costs while helping your agency focus on
mission-critical tasks. Plus, the Cloud can help you maintain operational efficiency during times of crisis.
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2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
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All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
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Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
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JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
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JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and Grafana
Data Security Issues in Cloud Computing
1. MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
DATA SECURITY ISSUES IN CLOUD COMPUTING
TO
SIR AFZAAL AHMED
SUBMITTED BY
ASAD ALI
BBA 8-D
1611224
MID-TERM ASSIGNMENT
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Abstract
Cloud computing has proven to be essential source of full filling computing needs by giving
solutions like networking, storage and developing web applications. However, it still has concerns
over security. In the past we have seen a lot of breaches which lead to leaking (which will be
discussed in this paper), manipulating and stealing of account credentials and data. In this paper,
we discuss about the data security issues with cloud computing, the reasons of breaches and
possible countermeasures in order to tackle them. In the end, I would be giving some personal
insight of what I think is the future of cloud computing and how this generation and the future one
can take full advantage of this technology.
Literature Review
Cloud computing is a program that allows user to store the data, manage it. It is considered by
many as to be one of the most important technologies in the current era (Gartner Inc., 2011). Cloud
computing is being done worldwide and has immense amount of potential. It works with minimal
human interaction by giving access to a shared pool (e.g. network, storage) which is convenient,
prevalent and accessible. Cloud computing acts like a language as well as a distributor which main
goal is to provide fast, reliable, and authentic storage of the data. It also allows several users to
share their operating system simultaneously (Zhao G, 2009). It helps in saving time, fastening the
work of development and enables the user to work according to the environment and adapt to the
changes if ever happens. Through effective and efficient computing, it helps in cost reduction too.
Cloud computing is a mixture of different services and acts as a technological hub. It provides
solution to the users and fulfill their computing needs while the servers acts as storage of data and
information. Cloud computing is a mature product while basically represents all the other
technological services (Marinos A, 2009). Out of many models, the one that is widely used is
prepared by NIST. The cloud computing model defined by NIST consist of three service and four
deployment models. If we compared the NIST model to the traditional IT model, the cloud
computing model stands out in many ways. Many IT experts say that the one main reason that they
don’t use cloud computing model is due to its security reasons (Sun Cloud Architecture
Introduction White Paper).
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Cloud Computing Model
There are five players in the process of cloud computing. A cloud consumer (CS) is the one that
receives the service form the cloud provider by paying them. Cloud service provider (CSP) is the
one that gives the service to CS. Cloud auditor job is to look after the functions and performance.
Cloud broker is the connection between CS and CSP. Cloud carrier provides the connectivity so
that CSP can give service to CS.
Barriers to adoption
Although there are a lot of benefits provided by cloud computing, still there are some things that
concern the user. The risk at the security level is the main reason why so many people still don’t
opt for cloud computing (From hype to future: KPMG’s 2010 Cloud Computing survey). The data,
network and information can be either leaked or hacked. Since it is a newly developed concept, it
has a lot uncertainty in it (Rosado DG, 2012). For example, if I have an application of my own but
instead of using local server, I am using a server based in United States of America. Now due to
huge gap between the server and the application, the uncertainty of the encryption code whether it
is solid or not and the server not being local may result to low speed, there are chances that the
packets of data might get leaked of changed. Many business executive still have their doubts on
cloud service that is why they have come to the conclusion that security is the biggest issue in
cloud computing (Mather T, 2009).
Cloud Consumer
Cloud Auditor
Cloud Carrier
CloudProvider
Cloudbroker
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SPI Model
SPI model is used to define the process of information technology at three levels, software,
infrastructure and platform.
The SPI model consists of 3 types of services:
Software as a service: It gives consumer the capability to use the software given by the cloud
provider to fulfill the computing needs. It can be accessed through an intermediate like web
browser. Some examples of SaaS are, Dropbox, Mail Chimp, Hub spot, YouTube etc.
Platform as a service: A service provided to the consumer where they can run their own
applications without installing any platform. For example, if I run a business and have an
application of it. It needs to be accessible 24/7 so that my customers don’t face any problem. In
order to that, I would need note.js (a runtime library that is used as service or backend for the
software) to run my application. For that I have to be online 24/7 because if I go offline, my
application would stop. So the solution to this is provided by Amazon web services, which is an
example of PaaS. It gives you a platform where you can upload your application and they will run
it for you. For starters it would be free but then they would start charging a minimal fee.
Infrastructure as a service: It is service that allows consumer to deploy any kind of application
and operating system of their own choice. An example of IaaS can be Google compute engine
(GCE). For example, if you are a big organization and want a server with specific attributes so that
you can run your application and serve it to your customers. Due to the competition being so
SaaS
PaaS
IaaS
Valuevisibilitytoendusers
End Users
Application
Developers
Network
Architects
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extensive, all your load is being handled by the server. Your applications and data are very large
in size, so you would need a very high end server in order to store and run your soft wares. Since
the servers requires maintenance and it’s very costly, you can hire a third party i.e. IaaS which
does it for you in less money.
Out of all three, SaaS give the least customer control but gives the most security. PaaS gives more
control to customers compared to SaaS due to a little lower degree of conceptualization. IaaS
prefers giving control of security to the users.
SaaS Security Issues
It provides on demand services to the users like email, CRM etc. Since out of all three models,
SaaS gives the least control to the users, it do raises security concerns.
1. Application Security: The web application are deployed in SaaS application thrugh web
browsers. So any problems in the web application make SaaS applications vulnerable.
Hackers use web in order to attack the users’ data in order to change, manipulate and steal
it. OWASP has identified many threats that can be faced by SaaS.
2. Multi Tenancy: There are many people who use SaaS applications. Many of their data is
kept in the same servers. This may lead to leakage of the data. There should be a separate
more powerful server in order to keep the customers data separate from other customers.
3. Data Security: In SaaS, the security is in the hands of the provider. It’s the providers’ job
to look after the data while it’s being stored and processed. So this is a major issue since it
will concern many customers. Secondly, there are data backups in case of any mishaps.
The SaaS providers make the backup themselves but sometimes they offer this job to a
third party. Here comes the reliability issue. The third party contractor can either leak or
manipulate the data. The data is stored in SaaS servers, so they need to protect, secure and
segregate the data.
4. Accessibility: Since all the process is mobile and is done through internet, some major
issue that may concern user and the providers are stealing of information through malware,
insecure Wi-Fi, complications in operating system and proxy based hacking.
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PaaS Security Issues
PaaS allows user to deploy their web based application in to their platform. To work, it needs
secure network and web browser. There are two security layers that PaaS looks after, one is its
own platform and the other is customers’ application. Just like SaaS, PaaS also faces security
issues.
1. Third Party Relationships: One more service that PaaS offers is third party web
components. So the customer now have to be reliable on not one, but two different security
measures on platforms.
2. Development Life Cycle: PaaS platforms gets updated very frequently in order to mitigate
the security concerns. Applications that are being developed in the cloud should be also up
to date. PaaS developers, for their security of data has to keep up with the system
development life cycle (SDLC) i.e. requirements, design, coding, testing and then
evaluation.
3. Infrastructure: In SaaS, software is provide to the users while in PaaS, development tools
are provided which doesn’t have any security assurance. In Paas, developers’ doesn’t have
the security in their hands, it’s completely up to the provider.
Iaas Security Issues
IaaS provides a lot of services. From networking to storage, all the services are accessed via
internet. In IaaS, users are given full control that means most of the security are in users’ hand.
Data is much more secured in IaaS as long as there are no loop holes. Some control is with IaaS
too. Like looking after storage and network. IaaS providers has to secure their servers in order to
minimize the risk of data theft.
1. Virtualization: Usage of multiple operating systems, running multiple application and
gathering a lot of information of different servers from one virtual depository is called
virtualization. Virtualization adds an extra layer to the security concern because they have
multiple boundaries, physical and virtual.
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2. Virtual Machine Monitor: VMM is a low level monitor that isolates virtual machines into
a container to make them work independently, this of course reduces the security risks and
issues with the VM itself but the monitor is in itself is vulnerable if it gets compromised.
Other than that VMM monitor helps with migration between virtual machines, helps with
load balancing, fault tolerance and with maintenance by virtualizing the containers.
3. Shared Resource: In an IaaS with multiple virtual machines, the data sharing is an
essential feature, it helps to overcome the redundancy and increases the data storage for
other important things but on the dark side, VMs are vulnerable to attacks which might
result in an unauthorized data sharing of a VM with a network. Security leaks can also
cause unintentional sharing of sophisticated data between VMs without reporting through
a VMM.
4. Virtual Machine Rollback: Backups is one of the crucial features an IaaS is dependent
on. Data loss, compromise or security leaks can be minimized by rolling back the VM to
its previous state. This is possible by making frequent snapshots of the current state settings
of the machine. Roll backs is the best escape plan but with it comes a compromise with
security vulnerabilities and configuration errors. It can include a rolling back to a previous
patch which would be vulnerable to hacks. Rolling back will also re-enable the disabled
accounts which can result in data loss or security breach.
5. Virtual Networks: In a VM network, a secure approach for a VMs interconnectivity is to
assign itself to a host through a physical channel however most of the hypervisors use
virtual networks for it but this results in security breaches by hackers using sniffing and
spoofing packets between the VM sharing the data.
Countermeasures
1. Digital Signatures: In order to secure the data, digital signatures with RSA algorithm
should be used as it is said to be the most reliable one. The decryption can only be done by
the person who has encrypted it. Other personnel would be needing a lot of information in
order to crack it.
2. Web application scanners: Web applications are a very easy target. They are open to
masses and can be attacked by anyone. Web application scanner is used to scan the
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application and look for the possible vulnerabilities regarding security. By scanning, we
can stop the manipulation of the customers’ data.
3. Virtual Network Security: In a paper by Wu et al. (2010), a frame work is presented that
can be used to secure the communication between virtual machines. In order to prevent
sniffing and spoofing, a virtual network model is used that can route the firewalls and
networks.
Infamous cloud security breaches
Microsoft:
In 2010, there was breach at Microsoft due to which all the business contact information was made
available to the public. It was traced back to its own Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS).
The problem was solved within two hours but how long ago was the breach made, that is yet to be
known. However, Microsoft used its technology to erase the data from the users servers who might
have accidently downloaded it. People started to have second thoughts regarding Microsoft cloud
services i.e. Office 365.
Dropbox:
The consequences that Dropbox faced after the breach was opened to the public after four years.
In 2012, hackers attacked their cloud service and tapped more than 68 million accounts including
their credentials and information. Later it was being sold at black market for more than $1000
apiece. More than 5 gigabytes of data was stolen. They countered it by requesting their user base
to change their passwords and giving hopes to its customer about data security in future.
LinkedIn:
LinkedIn faced bad luck when within the span of 4 years, their system was breached twice. In
2012, around 6 million accounts were stolen and were later posted on a Russian forum. In 2016,
around 167 million passwords were hacked and were being sold at black market. They requested
their users to change their passwords and also came up with a solution. They introduced two way
authentication. When a person logs in in to LinkedIn, they would require to enter the password as
well as the security code which they will receive on their mobile phones.
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Apple iCloud:
The breach that Apple faced is still the most high profile theft. The pictures of famous celebrities
like Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton etc. were leaked and posted at online platforms. First it was
thought that there individual cell phones were hacked, but later it was notified that iCloud faced a
breach. They urged their customers to imply stronger passwords. The solution that they came up
with is that the users will receive a notification if any suspicious activity were to be found.
Conclusion
Cloud Computing is the new breed of technology which is proving to be a life changer for the
users. It will help organizations to organize and secure their data. Although it has a lot benefits as
discussed above, the security issues are very alarming. We have discussed issues regarding SPI
model separately. As mentioned in the paper, the security of virtualization and storage are the
biggest concerns. In Pakistan, cloud computing is still unknown to the human kind. The biggest
reason is due to lack of technological education. Government should expose the citizen to the cloud
world. Big companies can invest their money in introducing cloud computing to Pakistan. Since it
is an untapped market, the businesses as well as the people will gain a lot from it
Future Research
Data security and privacy protection issues are very concerning. The objective should be to
develop a framework across all cloud services. Since there are a lot of employees in a work place,
a proper management should be done so that any breach from an employee or an ex-employee
could not take place. There should be a strict policy against unauthorized access. Responsibility
based security assurance systems will accomplish real-time inform, approval and evaluating for
the information proprietors when their private information being gotten to.
Personal Reflection
Nowadays, having a cloud service is very important for people. Not only accessing their services
related to web applications but also storage. Many people use iCloud, Google drive etc. in order
to save their work or pictures in order to keep their memories save with them. I personally have
seen people around me facing issues regarding iCloud security. Although with this many concerns,
it should be deemed unreliable, but the fact that it is cost and time saving cannot be ignored.
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