The document discusses the future of cloud security and outlines several key points:
1) As cloud computing becomes more widely adopted, security must advance to address new types of emerging threats that target applications and aim to steal proprietary data or cause disruption.
2) Traditional network security approaches are insufficient for cloud environments that rely more on application-level communication. New techniques for analyzing application behavior and network traffic patterns will be needed.
3) Achieving security in cloud environments will require adopting proactive defenses, intelligent management systems, and the ability to monitor workloads across multiple cloud platforms and resources.
Cloud Computing Security: Government Acquisition Considerations for the Cloud...Booz Allen Hamilton
This study provides insight into information assurance and mission assurance challenges posed by public cloud computing environments (CCE), and how accounting for those risks through acquisition security measures affect public CCE options.
This document discusses concerns around controlling data in the cloud and outlines potential solutions. The key concerns discussed are:
1) Lack of control over data in the cloud due to issues around transparency, auditability, third-party data control, and contractual obligations.
2) Availability concerns around cloud outages and single points of failure impacting critical applications and data.
3) New security problems that may emerge from increased data collection and analysis enabled by cheap cloud computing resources.
The document argues that advances in trusted computing and encryption techniques have the potential to address these concerns by extending control and ensuring integrity from enterprises into the cloud, while still allowing cloud participants to benefit from shared data and resources.
Design and implement a new cloud security method based on multi clouds on ope...csandit
Deployment of using cloud services as a new approach to keep people's platforms,
Infrastructure and applications has become an important issue in the world of communications
technology. This is a very useful paradigm for humans to obtain their essential needs simpler,
faster ,more flexible, and safer than before. But there are many concerns about this system
challenge. Security is the most important challenge for cloud systems. In this paper we design
and explain the procedure of implementation of a new method for cloud services based on multi
clouds on our platform which supplies security and privacy more than other clouds. We
introduce some confidentiality and security methods in each layer to have a secure access to
requirements. The architecture of our method and the implementation of method on our selected
platform for each layer are introduced in this paper.
This document proposes a novel framework for dependable cloud computing. It discusses security risks associated with cloud computing including vulnerabilities, accessibility issues, authentication, data tampering and privacy concerns. The framework aims to address these issues by involving all stakeholders to securely store and transfer encrypted data between private clouds and cloud service providers. An encryption system was designed using Java programming to encrypt and decrypt data in transit to test the dependability of stored and transferred data from the cloud. The goal is to improve security techniques and build trust in cloud computing by preventing and detecting security flaws.
BIOMETRIC SMARTCARD AUTHENTICATION FOR FOG COMPUTINGIJNSA Journal
In the IoT scenario, things at the edge can create significantly large amounts of data. Fog Computing has recently emerged as the paradigm to address the needs of edge computing in the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications. In a Fog Computing environment, much of the processing would take place closer to the edge in a router device, rather than having to be transmitted to the Fog. Authentication is an important issue for the security of fog computing since services are offered to massive-scale end users by front fog nodes.Fog computing faces new security and privacy challenges besides those inherited from cloud computing. Authentication helps to ensure and confirms a user's identity. The existing traditional password authentication does not provide enough security for the data and there have been instances when the password-based authentication has been manipulated to gain access into the data. Since the conventional methods such as passwords do not serve the purpose of data security, research worksare focused on biometric user authentication in fog computing environment. In this paper, we present biometric smartcard authentication to protect the fog computing environment.
The document discusses the need for an integrated approach to managing cyber risk across an enterprise. It outlines how cybersecurity involves coordinating policies, people, operations, technology, and managing risks. It provides examples of complex cyber threats including advanced persistent threats from state actors that can go undetected for years. A holistic approach is needed to address the multifaceted cyber threat environment through activities like asset management, planning, compliance, and building resiliency.
Cloud computing offers a very important approach to achieving lasting strategic advantages by rapidly adapting to complex challenges in IT management and data analytics. This paper discusses the business impact and analytic transformation opportunities of cloud computing. Moreover, it highlights the differences among two cloud architectures—Utility Clouds and Data Clouds—with illustrative examples of how Data Clouds are shaping new advances in Intelligence Analysis.
Cloud Computing Security: Government Acquisition Considerations for the Cloud...Booz Allen Hamilton
This study provides insight into information assurance and mission assurance challenges posed by public cloud computing environments (CCE), and how accounting for those risks through acquisition security measures affect public CCE options.
This document discusses concerns around controlling data in the cloud and outlines potential solutions. The key concerns discussed are:
1) Lack of control over data in the cloud due to issues around transparency, auditability, third-party data control, and contractual obligations.
2) Availability concerns around cloud outages and single points of failure impacting critical applications and data.
3) New security problems that may emerge from increased data collection and analysis enabled by cheap cloud computing resources.
The document argues that advances in trusted computing and encryption techniques have the potential to address these concerns by extending control and ensuring integrity from enterprises into the cloud, while still allowing cloud participants to benefit from shared data and resources.
Design and implement a new cloud security method based on multi clouds on ope...csandit
Deployment of using cloud services as a new approach to keep people's platforms,
Infrastructure and applications has become an important issue in the world of communications
technology. This is a very useful paradigm for humans to obtain their essential needs simpler,
faster ,more flexible, and safer than before. But there are many concerns about this system
challenge. Security is the most important challenge for cloud systems. In this paper we design
and explain the procedure of implementation of a new method for cloud services based on multi
clouds on our platform which supplies security and privacy more than other clouds. We
introduce some confidentiality and security methods in each layer to have a secure access to
requirements. The architecture of our method and the implementation of method on our selected
platform for each layer are introduced in this paper.
This document proposes a novel framework for dependable cloud computing. It discusses security risks associated with cloud computing including vulnerabilities, accessibility issues, authentication, data tampering and privacy concerns. The framework aims to address these issues by involving all stakeholders to securely store and transfer encrypted data between private clouds and cloud service providers. An encryption system was designed using Java programming to encrypt and decrypt data in transit to test the dependability of stored and transferred data from the cloud. The goal is to improve security techniques and build trust in cloud computing by preventing and detecting security flaws.
BIOMETRIC SMARTCARD AUTHENTICATION FOR FOG COMPUTINGIJNSA Journal
In the IoT scenario, things at the edge can create significantly large amounts of data. Fog Computing has recently emerged as the paradigm to address the needs of edge computing in the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications. In a Fog Computing environment, much of the processing would take place closer to the edge in a router device, rather than having to be transmitted to the Fog. Authentication is an important issue for the security of fog computing since services are offered to massive-scale end users by front fog nodes.Fog computing faces new security and privacy challenges besides those inherited from cloud computing. Authentication helps to ensure and confirms a user's identity. The existing traditional password authentication does not provide enough security for the data and there have been instances when the password-based authentication has been manipulated to gain access into the data. Since the conventional methods such as passwords do not serve the purpose of data security, research worksare focused on biometric user authentication in fog computing environment. In this paper, we present biometric smartcard authentication to protect the fog computing environment.
The document discusses the need for an integrated approach to managing cyber risk across an enterprise. It outlines how cybersecurity involves coordinating policies, people, operations, technology, and managing risks. It provides examples of complex cyber threats including advanced persistent threats from state actors that can go undetected for years. A holistic approach is needed to address the multifaceted cyber threat environment through activities like asset management, planning, compliance, and building resiliency.
Cloud computing offers a very important approach to achieving lasting strategic advantages by rapidly adapting to complex challenges in IT management and data analytics. This paper discusses the business impact and analytic transformation opportunities of cloud computing. Moreover, it highlights the differences among two cloud architectures—Utility Clouds and Data Clouds—with illustrative examples of how Data Clouds are shaping new advances in Intelligence Analysis.
Research Report on Preserving Data Confidentiality & Data Integrity in ...Manish Sahani
ABSTRACT : Currently, cloud-based application is so very famous, but preserving the confidentiality of the user’s data is a huge task to accomplish. Keeping this need in mind, here a solution is proposed which will preserve the data confidentiality & integrity in cloud environment. For providing data confidentiality we will use AES algorithms, by virtue of which the secret data will be converted to cipher text and it becomes very difficult for the user to get the meaningful plain text. Here the basic emphasis is also on the data integrity so that the user’s data can’t be duplicated or copied.Keywords:Data Confidentiality, Data Integrity, AES algorithm
Research proposal on Computing Security and Reliability - Phdassistance.comPhD Assistance
From introducing new international standards to having an important role to play in several industries, computer science is one of the powerful subjects right now. You cannot guess a single area that does not need computer systems or efficient networking options. Because Technology and Computer Science go together for any field.
Stating this, there are a few core subjects inside computer science that are unpredictable in its future use. One such case is with computing technologies.
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Assurance of Security and Privacy Requirements for Cloud Deployment ModelIJMTST Journal
Regardless of the few advantages of relocating endeavor basic resources for the Cloud, there are challenges particularly identified with security and protection. It is imperative that Cloud Users comprehend their security and protection needs, in light of their particular setting and select cloud show best fit to help these requirements. The writing gives works that attention on talking about security and protection issues for cloud frameworks yet such works don't give a nitty gritty methodological way to deal with evoke security and security necessities neither one of the to choose cloud arrangement models in view of fulfillment of these prerequisites by Cloud Service Providers. This work propels the present best in class towards this bearing. Specifically, we consider necessities designing ideas to inspire and dissect security and protection prerequisites and their related instruments utilizing an applied structure and an orderly procedure. The work presents confirmation as proof for fulfilling the security and protection necessities as far as culmination and reportable of security occurrence through review. This enables point of view cloud clients to characterize their confirmation prerequisites with the goal that proper cloud models can be chosen for a given setting. To exhibit our work, we display comes about because of a genuine contextual analysis in view of the Greek National Gazette.
Security Issues’ in Cloud Computing and its Solutions. IJCERT JOURNAL
Cloud computing is a set of IT services that are provided to a customer over a network on a leased basis and with the ability to scale up or down their service requirements. Usually cloud computing services are delivered by a third party provider who owns the infrastructure. It advantages to mention but a few include scalability, resilience, flexibility, efficiency and outsourcing non-core activities. Cloud computing offers an innovative business model for organizations to adopt IT services without upfront investment. Despite the potential gains achieved from the cloud computing, the organizations are slow in accepting it due to security issues and challenges associated with it. Security is one of the major issues which hamper the growth of cloud. The idea of handing over important data to another company is worrisome; such that the consumers need to be vigilant in understanding the risks of data breaches in this new environment. This paper introduces a detailed analysis of the cloud computing security issues and challenges focusing on the cloud computing types and the service delivery types.
This document discusses security concerns regarding cloud computing and proposes solutions to address those concerns. The key concerns discussed are traditional security issues like vulnerabilities, availability issues from outages, and third-party control issues regarding data ownership and compliance. The document argues that many of these issues are not new problems but rather existing problems in a new setting. It proposes that with continued research in areas like trusted computing and encryption techniques that support computation on encrypted data, these concerns can be alleviated to allow for greater adoption and realization of cloud computing's potential benefits while still maintaining appropriate control and security of data.
Abstract: Distributed computing is a situated of IT administrations that are given to a client more than a system on a rented premise and with the capacity to scale up or down their administration necessities. Generally cloud registering administrations are conveyed by an outsider supplier who possesses the foundation. It favorable circumstances to specify yet a couple incorporate versatility, strength, adaptability, productivity and outsourcing non-center exercises. Distributed computing offers an imaginative plan of action for associations to receive IT benefits without forthright speculation. Notwithstanding the potential increases accomplished from the distributed computing, the associations are moderate in tolerating it because of security issues and difficulties connected with it. Security is one of the significant issues which hamper the development of cloud. The thought of giving over vital information to another organization is troubling; such that the shoppers should be cautious in comprehension the dangers of information breaks in this new environment. This paper presents a point by point examination of the distributed computing security issues furthermore, difficulties concentrating on the distributed computing sorts and the administration conveyance sorts.Keywords: Cloud Computing, Scalability, Infrastructure, IT.
Title: Cloud Computing Security Issues and Challenges
Author: Nishant Katiyar
ISSN 2350-1022
International Journal of Recent Research in Mathematics Computer Science and Information Technology
Paper Publications
Review on Security Aspects for Cloud Architecture IJECEIAES
Cloud computing is one of the fastest growing and popular technology in the field of computing. As the concept of cloud computing was introduced in 2006. Since then large number of IT industries join the queue to develop many cloud services and put sensitive information over cloud. In fact cloud computing is no doubt the great innovation in the field of computing but at the same time also poses many challenges. Since a large number of organizations migrate their business to cloud and hence it appears as an attractive target for the malicious attack. The purpose of the paper is to review the available literature for security concerns and highlight a relationship between vulnerabilities, attacks and threats in SaaS model. A mapping is being presented to highlight the impact of vulnerabilities and attacks.
International Journal of Computational Engineering Research (IJCER) is dedicated to protecting personal information and will make every reasonable effort to handle collected information appropriately. All information collected, as well as related requests, will be handled as carefully and efficiently as possible in accordance with IJCER standards for integrity and objectivity.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
This document summarizes the key risks of securing a corporate cloud environment for non-technical leaders. It discusses how cloud computing works and the main types of cloud services. It then outlines the most common types of data breaches corporations face, including social engineering, technical exploits of vulnerabilities, weak third-party security, simple passwords, and brute force attacks. It emphasizes that employees must have a security mindset and companies must strictly regulate accounts, passwords, and permissions to secure collaboration in the cloud. Proper technology, culture, and policies are needed to balance security and open collaboration.
In 3 sentences:
IT leaders are increasingly adopting hybrid cloud solutions to gain benefits like flexibility, innovation and cost savings while also addressing security concerns. A survey found that nearly half of organizations use a hybrid cloud approach and security technologies can help mitigate risks when applications and infrastructure span internal and external services. Experts recommend integrating existing security solutions and establishing processes when collaborating with cloud providers for a comprehensive security strategy across hybrid cloud environments.
Security in Cloud Computing For Service Delivery Models: Challenges and Solut...IJERA Editor
Cloud computing, undoubtedly, is a path to expand the limits or add powerful capabilities on-demand with
almost no investment in new framework, training new staff, or authorizing new software. Though today
everyone is talking about cloud but, organizations are still in dilemma whether it’s safe to deploy their business
on cloud. The reason behind it; is nothing but Security. No cloud service provider provides 100% security
assurance to its customers and therefore, businesses are hesitant to accept cloud and the vast benefits that come
along with it. The absence of proper security controls delimits the benefits of cloud. In this paper, a review on
different cloud service models and a survey of the different security challenges and issues while providing
services in cloud is presented .The paper focuses on the security issues specific to service delivery model (SaaS,
IaaS and PaaS) of cloud environment. This paper also explores the various security solutions currently being
applied to protect cloud from various kinds of intruders.
MIST Effective Masquerade Attack Detection in the CloudKumar Goud
Abstract: Cloud computing promises to significantly change the way we use computers and access and store our personal and business information. With these new computing and communications paradigms arise new data security challenges. Existing data protection mechanisms such as encryption have failed in preventing data theft attacks, especially those perpetrated by an insider to the cloud provider. We propose a different approach for securing data in the cloud using offensive decoy technology. We monitor data access in the cloud and detect abnormal data access patterns. When unauthorized access is suspected and then verified using challenge questions, we launch a disinformation attack by returning large amounts of decoy information to the attacker. This protects against the misuse of the user’s real data. Experiments conducted in a local file setting provide evidence that this approach may provide unprecedented levels of user data security in a Cloud environment.
Keywords: Mist, Insider data stealing, Bait information, Lure Files, Validating user
This document discusses the risks, countermeasures, costs and benefits of cloud computing. It identifies key risks like cyberattacks, lack of data location control, complex trust boundaries that make investigations difficult, and privacy issues. It recommends solutions like well-defined policies, service level agreements, continuous risk assessments, encryption, and guidance from NIST. While cloud computing offers cost savings and flexibility, users are ultimately responsible for security and must approach cloud adoption with care given its immature nature and risks.
IJERA (International journal of Engineering Research and Applications) is International online, ... peer reviewed journal. For more detail or submit your article, please visit www.ijera.com
The paradigm called “Cloud computing” acts as a mechanism for attaining the resources of shared technology and infrastructure cost-effectively. The on-demand services are accomplished to execute the various operations across the network. Regularly, the last client doesn't know about the area of open physical assets and devices. Developing, using, and dealing with their applications 'on the cloud', which includes virtualization of assets that keeps and guides itself are led by arranged activities to clients. Calculation experience the new methodology of cloud computing which perhaps keeps the world and can set up all the human necessities. At the end of the day, cloud computing is the ensuing normal step in the development of on-request data innovation administrations and items. The Cloud is an allegory for the Internet and is an idea for the secured confused foundation; it likewise relies upon drawing network graphs on a computer. In this work, thorough investigations of distributed computing security and protection concerns are given. The work distinguishes both the identified and unidentified attacks, vulnerabilities in the cloud, security attacks and also the solutions to control these threats and attacks. Moreover, the restrictions of the present solutions and offers various perceptions of security viewpoints are distinguished and explored. At long last, a cloud security system is given in which the different lines of protection and the reliance levels among them are identified.
SYSTEM END-USER ACTIONS AS A THREAT TO INFORMATION SYSTEM SECURITYIJNSA Journal
As universities migrate online due to the advent of Covid-19, there is a need for enhanced security in information systems in the institution of higher learning. Many opted to invest in technological approaches to mitigate cybersecurity threats; however, the most common types of cybersecurity breaches happen due to the human factor, well known as end-user error or actions. Thus, this study aimed to identify and explore possible end-user errors in academia and the resulting vulnerabilities and threats that could affect the integrity of the university's information system. The study further presented state-of-the-art humanoriented security threats countermeasures to compliment universities' cybersecurity plans. Countermeasures include well-tailored ICT policies, incident response procedures, and education to protect themselves from security events (disruption, distortion, and exploitation). Adopted is a mixedmethod research approach with a qualitative research design to guide the study. An open-ended questionnaire and semi-structured interviews were used as data collection tools. Findings showed that system end-user errors remain the biggest security threat to information systems security in institutions of higher learning. Indeed errors make information systems vulnerable to certain cybersecurity attacks and, when exploited, put legitimate users, institutional network, and its computers at risk of contracting viruses, worms, Trojan, and expose it to spam, phishing, e-mail fraud, and other modern security attacks such as DDoS, session hijacking, replay attack and many more. Understanding that technology has failed to fully protect systems, specific recommendations are provided for the institution of higher education to consider improving employee actions and minimizing security incidents in their eLearning platforms, post Covid-19.
Cloud computing technology security and trust challengesijsptm
A let of exclusive features such as high functionality and low cost have made cloud computing a valuable
technology. These remarkable features give users and companies, countless opportunities to reach their
goals spending minimum cost and time. Looking at the literature of this technology, it can be claimed that
the main concerns of the users of cloud are security issues especially trust. Unfortunately these concerns
have not been tackled yet. Therefore we decided to introduce a useful and functioned way to create more
trust among consumers to use this technology .In this paper we suggest the foundation of an international
certification institute for the service providing companies in order to increase trust and enhance likeliness
of using this new and valuable technology among people. Practicality of the technology will improve it and
will make its security better by providers.
Strategic Information Management Through Data ClassificationBooz Allen Hamilton
This white paper presents a comprehensive approach to information management programs. It outlines how data growth directly affects the risk posture of critical corporate information assets. In addition, it defines common problems caused by gaps in information management programs as well as consequences associated with immature methodologies.
Research Report on Preserving Data Confidentiality & Data Integrity in ...Manish Sahani
ABSTRACT : Currently, cloud-based application is so very famous, but preserving the confidentiality of the user’s data is a huge task to accomplish. Keeping this need in mind, here a solution is proposed which will preserve the data confidentiality & integrity in cloud environment. For providing data confidentiality we will use AES algorithms, by virtue of which the secret data will be converted to cipher text and it becomes very difficult for the user to get the meaningful plain text. Here the basic emphasis is also on the data integrity so that the user’s data can’t be duplicated or copied.Keywords:Data Confidentiality, Data Integrity, AES algorithm
Research proposal on Computing Security and Reliability - Phdassistance.comPhD Assistance
From introducing new international standards to having an important role to play in several industries, computer science is one of the powerful subjects right now. You cannot guess a single area that does not need computer systems or efficient networking options. Because Technology and Computer Science go together for any field.
Stating this, there are a few core subjects inside computer science that are unpredictable in its future use. One such case is with computing technologies.
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Assurance of Security and Privacy Requirements for Cloud Deployment ModelIJMTST Journal
Regardless of the few advantages of relocating endeavor basic resources for the Cloud, there are challenges particularly identified with security and protection. It is imperative that Cloud Users comprehend their security and protection needs, in light of their particular setting and select cloud show best fit to help these requirements. The writing gives works that attention on talking about security and protection issues for cloud frameworks yet such works don't give a nitty gritty methodological way to deal with evoke security and security necessities neither one of the to choose cloud arrangement models in view of fulfillment of these prerequisites by Cloud Service Providers. This work propels the present best in class towards this bearing. Specifically, we consider necessities designing ideas to inspire and dissect security and protection prerequisites and their related instruments utilizing an applied structure and an orderly procedure. The work presents confirmation as proof for fulfilling the security and protection necessities as far as culmination and reportable of security occurrence through review. This enables point of view cloud clients to characterize their confirmation prerequisites with the goal that proper cloud models can be chosen for a given setting. To exhibit our work, we display comes about because of a genuine contextual analysis in view of the Greek National Gazette.
Security Issues’ in Cloud Computing and its Solutions. IJCERT JOURNAL
Cloud computing is a set of IT services that are provided to a customer over a network on a leased basis and with the ability to scale up or down their service requirements. Usually cloud computing services are delivered by a third party provider who owns the infrastructure. It advantages to mention but a few include scalability, resilience, flexibility, efficiency and outsourcing non-core activities. Cloud computing offers an innovative business model for organizations to adopt IT services without upfront investment. Despite the potential gains achieved from the cloud computing, the organizations are slow in accepting it due to security issues and challenges associated with it. Security is one of the major issues which hamper the growth of cloud. The idea of handing over important data to another company is worrisome; such that the consumers need to be vigilant in understanding the risks of data breaches in this new environment. This paper introduces a detailed analysis of the cloud computing security issues and challenges focusing on the cloud computing types and the service delivery types.
This document discusses security concerns regarding cloud computing and proposes solutions to address those concerns. The key concerns discussed are traditional security issues like vulnerabilities, availability issues from outages, and third-party control issues regarding data ownership and compliance. The document argues that many of these issues are not new problems but rather existing problems in a new setting. It proposes that with continued research in areas like trusted computing and encryption techniques that support computation on encrypted data, these concerns can be alleviated to allow for greater adoption and realization of cloud computing's potential benefits while still maintaining appropriate control and security of data.
Abstract: Distributed computing is a situated of IT administrations that are given to a client more than a system on a rented premise and with the capacity to scale up or down their administration necessities. Generally cloud registering administrations are conveyed by an outsider supplier who possesses the foundation. It favorable circumstances to specify yet a couple incorporate versatility, strength, adaptability, productivity and outsourcing non-center exercises. Distributed computing offers an imaginative plan of action for associations to receive IT benefits without forthright speculation. Notwithstanding the potential increases accomplished from the distributed computing, the associations are moderate in tolerating it because of security issues and difficulties connected with it. Security is one of the significant issues which hamper the development of cloud. The thought of giving over vital information to another organization is troubling; such that the shoppers should be cautious in comprehension the dangers of information breaks in this new environment. This paper presents a point by point examination of the distributed computing security issues furthermore, difficulties concentrating on the distributed computing sorts and the administration conveyance sorts.Keywords: Cloud Computing, Scalability, Infrastructure, IT.
Title: Cloud Computing Security Issues and Challenges
Author: Nishant Katiyar
ISSN 2350-1022
International Journal of Recent Research in Mathematics Computer Science and Information Technology
Paper Publications
Review on Security Aspects for Cloud Architecture IJECEIAES
Cloud computing is one of the fastest growing and popular technology in the field of computing. As the concept of cloud computing was introduced in 2006. Since then large number of IT industries join the queue to develop many cloud services and put sensitive information over cloud. In fact cloud computing is no doubt the great innovation in the field of computing but at the same time also poses many challenges. Since a large number of organizations migrate their business to cloud and hence it appears as an attractive target for the malicious attack. The purpose of the paper is to review the available literature for security concerns and highlight a relationship between vulnerabilities, attacks and threats in SaaS model. A mapping is being presented to highlight the impact of vulnerabilities and attacks.
International Journal of Computational Engineering Research (IJCER) is dedicated to protecting personal information and will make every reasonable effort to handle collected information appropriately. All information collected, as well as related requests, will be handled as carefully and efficiently as possible in accordance with IJCER standards for integrity and objectivity.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
This document summarizes the key risks of securing a corporate cloud environment for non-technical leaders. It discusses how cloud computing works and the main types of cloud services. It then outlines the most common types of data breaches corporations face, including social engineering, technical exploits of vulnerabilities, weak third-party security, simple passwords, and brute force attacks. It emphasizes that employees must have a security mindset and companies must strictly regulate accounts, passwords, and permissions to secure collaboration in the cloud. Proper technology, culture, and policies are needed to balance security and open collaboration.
In 3 sentences:
IT leaders are increasingly adopting hybrid cloud solutions to gain benefits like flexibility, innovation and cost savings while also addressing security concerns. A survey found that nearly half of organizations use a hybrid cloud approach and security technologies can help mitigate risks when applications and infrastructure span internal and external services. Experts recommend integrating existing security solutions and establishing processes when collaborating with cloud providers for a comprehensive security strategy across hybrid cloud environments.
Security in Cloud Computing For Service Delivery Models: Challenges and Solut...IJERA Editor
Cloud computing, undoubtedly, is a path to expand the limits or add powerful capabilities on-demand with
almost no investment in new framework, training new staff, or authorizing new software. Though today
everyone is talking about cloud but, organizations are still in dilemma whether it’s safe to deploy their business
on cloud. The reason behind it; is nothing but Security. No cloud service provider provides 100% security
assurance to its customers and therefore, businesses are hesitant to accept cloud and the vast benefits that come
along with it. The absence of proper security controls delimits the benefits of cloud. In this paper, a review on
different cloud service models and a survey of the different security challenges and issues while providing
services in cloud is presented .The paper focuses on the security issues specific to service delivery model (SaaS,
IaaS and PaaS) of cloud environment. This paper also explores the various security solutions currently being
applied to protect cloud from various kinds of intruders.
MIST Effective Masquerade Attack Detection in the CloudKumar Goud
Abstract: Cloud computing promises to significantly change the way we use computers and access and store our personal and business information. With these new computing and communications paradigms arise new data security challenges. Existing data protection mechanisms such as encryption have failed in preventing data theft attacks, especially those perpetrated by an insider to the cloud provider. We propose a different approach for securing data in the cloud using offensive decoy technology. We monitor data access in the cloud and detect abnormal data access patterns. When unauthorized access is suspected and then verified using challenge questions, we launch a disinformation attack by returning large amounts of decoy information to the attacker. This protects against the misuse of the user’s real data. Experiments conducted in a local file setting provide evidence that this approach may provide unprecedented levels of user data security in a Cloud environment.
Keywords: Mist, Insider data stealing, Bait information, Lure Files, Validating user
This document discusses the risks, countermeasures, costs and benefits of cloud computing. It identifies key risks like cyberattacks, lack of data location control, complex trust boundaries that make investigations difficult, and privacy issues. It recommends solutions like well-defined policies, service level agreements, continuous risk assessments, encryption, and guidance from NIST. While cloud computing offers cost savings and flexibility, users are ultimately responsible for security and must approach cloud adoption with care given its immature nature and risks.
IJERA (International journal of Engineering Research and Applications) is International online, ... peer reviewed journal. For more detail or submit your article, please visit www.ijera.com
The paradigm called “Cloud computing” acts as a mechanism for attaining the resources of shared technology and infrastructure cost-effectively. The on-demand services are accomplished to execute the various operations across the network. Regularly, the last client doesn't know about the area of open physical assets and devices. Developing, using, and dealing with their applications 'on the cloud', which includes virtualization of assets that keeps and guides itself are led by arranged activities to clients. Calculation experience the new methodology of cloud computing which perhaps keeps the world and can set up all the human necessities. At the end of the day, cloud computing is the ensuing normal step in the development of on-request data innovation administrations and items. The Cloud is an allegory for the Internet and is an idea for the secured confused foundation; it likewise relies upon drawing network graphs on a computer. In this work, thorough investigations of distributed computing security and protection concerns are given. The work distinguishes both the identified and unidentified attacks, vulnerabilities in the cloud, security attacks and also the solutions to control these threats and attacks. Moreover, the restrictions of the present solutions and offers various perceptions of security viewpoints are distinguished and explored. At long last, a cloud security system is given in which the different lines of protection and the reliance levels among them are identified.
SYSTEM END-USER ACTIONS AS A THREAT TO INFORMATION SYSTEM SECURITYIJNSA Journal
As universities migrate online due to the advent of Covid-19, there is a need for enhanced security in information systems in the institution of higher learning. Many opted to invest in technological approaches to mitigate cybersecurity threats; however, the most common types of cybersecurity breaches happen due to the human factor, well known as end-user error or actions. Thus, this study aimed to identify and explore possible end-user errors in academia and the resulting vulnerabilities and threats that could affect the integrity of the university's information system. The study further presented state-of-the-art humanoriented security threats countermeasures to compliment universities' cybersecurity plans. Countermeasures include well-tailored ICT policies, incident response procedures, and education to protect themselves from security events (disruption, distortion, and exploitation). Adopted is a mixedmethod research approach with a qualitative research design to guide the study. An open-ended questionnaire and semi-structured interviews were used as data collection tools. Findings showed that system end-user errors remain the biggest security threat to information systems security in institutions of higher learning. Indeed errors make information systems vulnerable to certain cybersecurity attacks and, when exploited, put legitimate users, institutional network, and its computers at risk of contracting viruses, worms, Trojan, and expose it to spam, phishing, e-mail fraud, and other modern security attacks such as DDoS, session hijacking, replay attack and many more. Understanding that technology has failed to fully protect systems, specific recommendations are provided for the institution of higher education to consider improving employee actions and minimizing security incidents in their eLearning platforms, post Covid-19.
Cloud computing technology security and trust challengesijsptm
A let of exclusive features such as high functionality and low cost have made cloud computing a valuable
technology. These remarkable features give users and companies, countless opportunities to reach their
goals spending minimum cost and time. Looking at the literature of this technology, it can be claimed that
the main concerns of the users of cloud are security issues especially trust. Unfortunately these concerns
have not been tackled yet. Therefore we decided to introduce a useful and functioned way to create more
trust among consumers to use this technology .In this paper we suggest the foundation of an international
certification institute for the service providing companies in order to increase trust and enhance likeliness
of using this new and valuable technology among people. Practicality of the technology will improve it and
will make its security better by providers.
Strategic Information Management Through Data ClassificationBooz Allen Hamilton
This white paper presents a comprehensive approach to information management programs. It outlines how data growth directly affects the risk posture of critical corporate information assets. In addition, it defines common problems caused by gaps in information management programs as well as consequences associated with immature methodologies.
This document summarizes a librarian's experience at the 2012 ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim. Some key experiences included meeting authors like Ally Condie and Marie Lu, watching a performance by Nancy Cartwright (the voice of Bart Simpson), and attending speakers like Chris Colfer who discussed his book The Land of Stories. The librarian also learned about using technology like mounting iPads in the children's section, bringing books to conferences to promote them, and creating innovative programs for patrons. The conference provided opportunities to learn about new books, programs, technologies and ideas to apply at their own library.
More and more American men are becoming radicalized and waiting to carry out acts of terrorism against the US government, influenced by hateful content online. Domestic terrorism is a growing threat, as lone wolf attackers can easily obtain weapons and carry out shootings like the 2013 LAX airport attack with no one to stop them, demonstrating how lone wolf terrorism in America is directly linked to easy access to guns and an increasing belief that violence solves problems.
This document discusses social media and photography. It begins by introducing the author, Bradley Wilson, and providing context that it was presented at a press conference in April 2014. It then provides brief 1-2 sentence descriptions of various social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Pinterest, SmugMug, Soundslides, Vimeo, and YouTube. The descriptions highlight key features and purposes of each platform for sharing photos and videos online.
The document discusses balancing entrepreneurial objectives in building a university curriculum. It notes that universities need to evolve to meet growing demand for innovation and experiential learning. Entrepreneurship is an important part of curriculum additions for engineering education. The challenge is how to achieve significant scale for entrepreneurship to become a pervasive value and have significant economic impact, given the lack of proximity to Silicon Valley. The University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship addresses this through a strategy of pinnacle, development, and engagement programs at different intensity levels to expose a broad audience to entrepreneurship basics and provide practical experiences. This balances tension between robust economic development and accelerating entrepreneurial mindset.
This document discusses several projects by Joanna Go including a series of short stories about London nightlife called "Several Nights Around London" which was promoted using 400 handmade matchboxes. It also discusses a DVD containing a video and photographs to promote a book about eavesdropping in public places in London. Another project discussed the design of promotional Oyster Card wallets and a mobile app concept to encourage public transportation use. Finally it mentions some packaging and graphic design projects.
10 Tips for finding that next opportunityMike Jensen
The document provides 10 tips for finding a new career opportunity, including knowing the company and market well before interviews, being authentic, developing strong communication skills, building relationships, finding passion, and taking action on a plan. It also shares additional tips from Twitter about networking, maintaining professionalism, thinking big, and having fun. The document is from a 2010 career preparation presentation and includes contact information for the author.
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The ASSET project aims to enhance feedback for students and staff through a web 2.0 resource called ASSET. The project will explore using video to provide timely, high-quality feedback and aims to improve feedback engagement. Over 30 staff and 1000 students will pilot ASSET, providing feedback through video to complement existing mechanisms. Student and staff surveys and focus groups will collect data on how ASSET impacts the feedback experience.
The Texas STaR Chart is a tool for school districts to plan and assess their technology readiness and infrastructure over the long term from 2006-2020. It is used to create or update technology plans, set benchmarks and goals, measure technology proficiency, apply for grants, and track progress of funds from the No Child Left Behind Act. Districts are encouraged to complete a preliminary STaR Chart annually in May to review their status and plan accordingly.
Grendene was founded in 1971 in Brazil by Italian immigrants as a producer of plastic containers and wine bottle caps. It has grown to become the largest injected shoe factory worldwide with 25,000 employees working in a 253,000 square meter facility. Rider is an exclusive brand of Grendene that began with comfortable sandals and sneakers. It bases its pricing not on competitors but on innovation and variety. Communication is through advertisements in magazines, newspapers and public spaces during the main selling seasons. Products are shipped by truck from Brazil to Argentina for distribution.
- The document provides advice for those looking to invest in real estate, noting that protecting investments through an LLC is important and understanding local market values and rents is essential for making wise choices.
- It recommends seeking knowledge from other real estate investors through groups and learning as much as possible from peers who are experienced.
- The advice also includes being sure to hire a handyman when purchasing an investment property to avoid spending profits on repairs yourself, and to avoid properties in bad areas due to safety and resale value concerns.
Salary sacrifice allows an employee to give up part of their salary in return for a non-cash benefit from their employer like pension contributions. This reduces income tax and employee NI contributions, resulting in higher pension contributions at no extra cost to the employer. HMRC views this as a legitimate way to take advantage of tax exemptions for certain benefits, not tax avoidance. Employers can implement salary sacrifice by changing employment contracts with employee agreement for at least a 12 month period.
Running head: SESSION HIJACKING & CLOUD COMPUTING 1
SESSION HIJACKING & CLOUD COMPUTING 20
Preventing Session Hijacking in Cloud Computing
Sasha Melanie
Personal Research Paper
20th October 2015
Abstract
The idea of Cloud processing is turning out to be a well-known concept every passing day particularly in the field of computing and information technology. It refers to both applications that are conveyed as administrations over the Internet and also as resources (software and hardware) in the data centres. With this kind of advancement, the cloud computing technology raises many security concerns. There are several vulnerabilities that come along with cloud computing that may be exploited by attackers through security threats such as session hijacking. This paper gives an overview of the cloud as well as session hijacking highlighting the key vulnerability areas that every organization need to put into consideration before any implementation of cloud computing. The paper gives the basis for further research that would help curb the challenge of session hijacking in cloud computing.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Abstract 2
CHAPTER ONE 5
1.0 INTRODUCTION 5
1.1 Motivation for the study 6
1.2 Premises of the study 7
1.3 Problem Statement 7
1.4 Technical objectives of the study 7
CHAPTER TWO 9
2.0 RELATED WORK 9
2.1 Issues with Cloud Computing 9
2.2 ANALYSIS OF SESSION HIJACKING 9
2.2.1 Cookies: 10
2.2.2 TCP session capturing 10
2.3 PREVENTING SESSION HIJACKING 11
2.3.2 Information encryption programming 11
2.3.3 Virus Detection Applications 12
2.3.4 Digitized Signature 12
2.3.5 Computerized Authentication 13
2.3.6 Firewalls 14
2.3.7 Surf Anonymously 14
CHAPTER THREE 16
3.0 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND DESIGN 16
3.1 Introduction 16
3.2 Research Design 16
3.3 Data Collection Instruments 16
3.4 Methods of data Analysis and expected results 17
3.5 Time tables 17
3.6 Conclusion 18
REFERENCES 19
CHAPTER ONE1.0 INTRODUCTION
Enthusiasm towards Cloud processing arrangements is fast developing. Therefore, they have as of now been embraced in diverse situations, for example, person to person communication, business applications, and substance conveyance systems. Distributed computing is the start of a system based figuring over the web that is thought to be the component of two new registering models, the Client-Cloud processing, and the Terminal-Cloud figuring that would make entire eras of users and business (Mell & Grance, 2011). It is additionally the start of another Internet-based administration economy, for example, the Internet-driven, Web-based, on interest, Cloud applications and figuring economy. Bursztein et al., gives a more organized definition, who characterize a Cloud as a " parallel and disseminated framework comprising of an accumulation of interconnected and virtualized PCs that are progressively provisioned and exhibi.
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT A NEW CLOUD SECURITY METHOD BASED ON MULTI CLOUDS ON OPE...cscpconf
Deployment of using cloud services as a new approach to keep people's platforms, Infrastructure and applications has become an important issue in the world of communications technology. This is a very useful paradigm for humans to obtain their essential needs simpler, faster ,more flexible, and safer than before. But there are many concerns about this system challenge. Security is the most important challenge for cloud systems. In this paper we design and explain the procedure of implementation of a new method for cloud services based on multi clouds on our platform which supplies security and privacy more than other clouds. We introduce some confidentiality and security methods in each layer to have a secure access to requirements. The architecture of our method and the implementation of method on our selected platform for each layer are introduced in this paper.
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Investigation on Challenges in Cloud Security to Provide Effective Cloud Comp...ijcnes
Cloud computing provides the capability to use computing and storage resources on a metered basis and reduce the investments in an organization�s computing infrastructure. The spawning and deletion of virtual machines running on physical hardware and being controlled by hypervisors is a cost-efficient and flexible computing paradigm. In addition, the integration and widespread availability of large amounts of sanitized information such as health care records can be of tremendous benefit to researchers and practitioners. However, as with any technology, the full potential of the cloud cannot be achieved without understanding its capabilities, vulnerabilities, advantages, and trade-offs. We propose a new method of achieving the maximum benefit from cloud computation with minimal risk. Issues such as data ownership, privacy protections, data mobility, quality of service and service levels, bandwidth costs, data protection, and support have to be tackled in order to achieve the maximum benefit from cloud computation with minimal risk.
Trends in the IT Profession Annotated BibliographyAdemola Adeleke.docxwillcoxjanay
Trends in the IT Profession: Annotated BibliographyAdemola Adeleke
Trends in IT 3University of Maryland University College
Trends in the IT Profession – an Annotated Bibliography
As IT professionals we must understand a range of technical and not-so-technical topics, and subjects and applications, both at the industry level but as well in a way that can be explained to clients and professionals in other fields who may or may not be familiar with the technical aspects of marrying business functions with technology. When at all possible a company should assign an IT professional to a business that the IT professional already understands. The speed of innovation, change, and improvement in technology makes this an on-going task. Depending on the business and its needs for technical systems and support, the IT professional’s expertise must include understanding of network infrastructures, in-depth knowledge of applications like database creation and maintenance, web security, and maintaining system integrity including backup and recovery processes. Because business has become so dependent on technology and IT professionals, many of these topics are covered in the mainstream press while others are know-well only by trained and experienced professionals – and all degrees in-between. Due to recent security breaches both at private and government levels, many more people now are familiar with Cloud Computing Services, security breaches, methods of backup and recovery, and legal liabilities and insurance. This research combines all three into a single study that will aid in understanding and explaining these trends to clients as well as other professionals and rather than ordered alphabetically, are organized in order to tell a story and more easily explain these trends.
Annotated Bibliography
Knorr, E., & Gruman, G. (Apr 7, 2008). What Cloud computing really means. In Info World on Infoworld.com. http://www.infoworld.com/d/Cloud-computing/what-Cloud-computing-really-means-031
While this article is somewhat dated, it gives a good overview and informs IT professionals as to the level of understanding clients might have. Knorr and Gruman explain how everyone has his or her own definition and understanding of “the Cloud.” Cloud computing is a value proposition to IT professionals because it is a needed tool for businesses that operate across a wide geography with employees that all need access to the same information and data. Cloud computing is the early stages could be explained to non-professionals by pointing-out how their emails are not really contained on their computer but instead are kept and stored on the email providers “Cloud-based” servers. This is known simply as “Web services in a Cloud” by a “managed service providers” (MSP). Infoworld talks to and keeps current with many vendors who provides services such as Saas, Utility computing, Platform as a service (PAS), Service commerce platforms, and Internet integration, to get various opini ...
The Cloud! Oh how we love this IT catchword!
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This research analysis will go over the various encryption methods and summarize the previous research in encryption that has been done to this point. The advantages of Symmetric and Asymmetric Encryption will be discussed in terms of security and efficiency. As encryption becomes more advanced, so the need for proper key management increases as well. This paper will conclude with a look at what could be the future of cloud encryption, Homomorphic Encryption.
This document discusses security aspects of mobile cloud computing. It begins with an abstract discussing how cloud computing offers scalable and secure computation resources as a service. Mobile cloud computing combines mobile computing, cloud computing, and wireless networks. The document then analyzes existing security challenges and issues in cloud and mobile cloud environments. It identifies key long-term security and privacy issues based on documented problems. The document provides an overview of cloud computing models, characteristics, architectures, and security issues. It discusses how the flexibility and openness of cloud environments challenge assumptions about application security.
Security and Privacy Solutions in Cloud Computing at Openstack to Sustain Use...Zac Darcy
Cloud computing is an emerging model of service provision that has the advantage of minimizing costs
through sharing and storage of resources combined with a demand provisioning mechanism relying on
pay-per-use business model. Cloud computing features direct impact on information technology (IT)
budgeting but pose detrimental impacts on privacy and security mechanisms especially where sensitive
data is to be held offshore by third parties. Even though cloud computing environment promises new
benefits to organizations, it also presents its fair share of potential risks. It is considered as a double edge
sword considering the privacy and security standpoints. However, despite its potential to offer a low cost
security, customer organizations may increase the risks by storing their sensitive information in the cloud.
Therefore, this study focuses on privacy and security issues that pose a challenge in maintaining a level of
assurance that is sufficient enough to sustain confidence in potential users.
In this study, survey questions were sent to different non-profit and government organizations, which
assisted in collecting fundamental information. The data was acquired by conducting surveys in OpenStack
Company to identify the critical vulnerabilities in the cloud computing platform in order to provide the
recommended solutions.
So, analysis will be made on how the cloud’s characteristics such as the nature of the architecture,
attractiveness, as well as, vulnerability are tightly related to privacy and security issues. Privacy and
security are complex issues for which there is no standard and the relationship between them is necessarily
complicated. The study also highlight on the inherent challenge to data privacy because it typically results
in data to be presented in an encryption from the data owner. Thus, the study aimed at obtaining a common
goal to provide a comprehensive review of the existing security and privacy issues in cloud environments,
and identify and describe the most representative of the security and privacy attributes and present a
relationship among them.
Finally, in order to ensure that the standard measure of validity is achieved, validity test was conducted in
order to ensure that the study is free from errors. Various recommendations were provided. The study also
explored various areas that require future directions for each attribute, which comprise of multi-domain
policy integration and a secure service composition to design a comprehensive policy-based management
framework in the cloud environments.
Lastly, the recommendations will provide the potential for security and privacy approaches that can be
implemented to improve the cloud computing environment to ensure that a level of trust is achieved
SECURITY AND PRIVACY SOLUTIONS IN CLOUD COMPUTING AT OPENSTACK TO SUSTAIN USE...Zac Darcy
Cloud computing is an emerging model of service provision that has the advantage of minimizing costs
through sharing and storage of resources combined with a demand provisioning mechanism relying on
pay-per-use business model. Cloud computing features direct impact on information technology (IT)
budgeting but pose detrimental impacts on privacy and security mechanisms especially where sensitive
data is to be held offshore by third parties. Even though cloud computing environment promises new
benefits to organizations, it also presents its fair share of potential risks. It is considered as a double edge
sword considering the privacy and security standpoints. However, despite its potential to offer a low cost
security, customer organizations may increase the risks by storing their sensitive information in the cloud.
Therefore, this study focuses on privacy and security issues that pose a challenge in maintaining a level of
assurance that is sufficient enough to sustain confidence in potential users.
Cloud computing provides many benefits but also poses security risks due to data being stored remotely. This document discusses several key security threats in cloud computing like data leakage, attacks against the cloud infrastructure, and issues regarding access control and data segregation. It proposes some solutions to address these risks, such as access control management, incident response processes, data partitioning, and migration capabilities to improve security in cloud environments.
Cloud computing is set of resources and services offered through the Internet. Cloud
services are delivered from data centers located throughout the world. Cloud computing
facilitates its consumers by providing virtual resources via internet. The biggest challenge in
cloud computing is the security and privacy problems caused by its multi-tenancy nature and the
outsourcing of infrastructure, sensitive data and critical applications. Enterprises are rapidly adopting
cloud services for their businesses, measures need to be developed so that organizations can be assured
of security in their businesses and can choose a suitable vendor for their computing needs. Cloud
computing depends on the internet as a medium for users to access the required services at any time on
pay-per-use pattern. However this technology is still in its initial stages of development, as it suffers
from threats and vulnerabilities that prevent the users from trusting it. Various malicious activities
from illegal users have threatened this technology such as data misuse, inflexible access control and
limited monitoring. The occurrence of these threats may result into damaging or illegal access of
critical and confidential data of users. In this paper we identify the most vulnerable security
threats/attacks in cloud computing, which will enable both end users and vendors to know a bout
the k ey security threats associated with cloud computing and propose relevant solution directives to
strengthen security in the Cloud environment. We also propose secure cloud architecture for
organizations to strengthen the security.
The document discusses the future of cloud computing and the Internet of Things (IoT). It covers several topics:
1) The evolution and current state of cloud computing including public, private, hybrid, and community cloud models.
2) Technical pillars of IoT including RFID, wireless sensor networks, machine-to-machine communication, and SCADA systems.
3) The relationship between cloud computing and IoT, and how they will converge with mobile cloud computing.
4) Emerging paradigms like MAI and XaaS for connecting IoT devices within and outside organizations via the cloud.
This document discusses cloud computing security and outlines several key points:
1. It introduces cloud computing and discusses how it has reduced upfront costs for companies while allowing resources to scale as needed.
2. It then outlines some of the major security concerns for cloud computing, including whether cloud providers can securely manage large numbers of customers and sensitive data.
3. The document proposes several cloud computing models and architectures aimed at improving security, governance, compliance and establishing trust in cloud systems.
This document discusses security issues related to cloud computing. It begins with an introduction to cloud computing models including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). It then discusses potential security threats in cloud computing like denial of service attacks, side channel attacks, and man-in-the-middle cryptographic attacks. The document proposes a layered framework for assured cloud computing and techniques for secure publication of data in the cloud, including encryption. It concludes that achieving end-to-end security in cloud computing will be challenging due to complexity, but that more secure operations can be ensured even if some parts of the cloud fail.
IDC: Top Five Considerations for Cloud-Based Securityarms8586
The document discusses considerations for enterprises moving to cloud-based web security solutions. It addresses key drivers like the dissolution of network perimeters and rise of mobile/BYOD usage. Challenges include enforcing consistent social media policies and securing unmanaged devices. Cloud solutions can provide ubiquitous security without on-device agents. Hybrid models combining on-premise and cloud are also discussed.
The document outlines 4 key lessons for security leaders in 2022 based on a survey of 535 security professionals.
1. Modernize the security operations center with strategies like zero trust, automation, security information and event management tools, and additional training/staffing.
2. Prioritize obtaining a consolidated view of security data from multiple sources across complex cloud environments.
3. Rethink approaches to supply chain security threats in light of hacks like SolarWinds and improve visibility of lateral network movement.
4. Continue building collaborative advantages between security, IT, and development teams using approaches like DevSecOps that integrate security earlier.
This document discusses security issues related to cloud computing. It begins with an introduction to cloud computing models including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). It then discusses potential security attacks to clouds like denial of service attacks and man-in-the-middle attacks. Security concerns with moving data and applications to the cloud are outlined. Techniques for securely publishing data in the cloud are also presented. The document concludes that security in cloud computing is challenging due to the complexity of clouds but that assurance of secure and mission-critical operations is important.
Secure Digital Transformation- Cybersecurity Skills for a Safe Journey to Dev...Troy Marshall
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During the hour, we’ll take you through:
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- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
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1. What is the future of Cloud Security?
March 16, 2012
Author: Jonathan J. Spindel, Ph.D.
White Paper – Cloud Security
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2. What is the future of Cloud Security?
March 16, 2012
Summary
An open ended question, within every IT industry leaders mind is, “how do I operate
in an open environment, allow for the maximum use of resources, and still keep a lid
on security related issues”. Within Cloud Computing this question is even more
prevalent, as we attempt operate in an open environment, and still worry about
security concerns. This new quandary holdsvalidity, if the correct actions are taken
to target attacks, which almost seam to be programmatically created for such a
technology. In order to control and remediate emerging threats, we must adopt
intuitive security policies and procedures, along with proactive defenses,
whileincorporating intelligent management to solemnize these processes. This
paper will delve into those avenues, address pinpointed benchmarks, within the
subjects of distributed computing security, capitalizing on the
Private/Hybrid/Public Cloud topics, and the management/remediation of such
issues.
Understanding the underlying complexities, as relates to information and data
security, will help the reader expose their own concerns regarding internal and
external security related concerns, as well as propose solutions that will assist in the
remediation of those issues. Address anxieties revolving around the adoption of
outdated information security concepts, andsolutionsmerging innovative ideas
surrounding “intelligent” protocol and application behavioral analysis and pattern
“DNA” matching techniques, utilizing more advanced computational tools.
In tandem with protocol and application behavioral analysis, these techniques will
assist the reader in understanding the value proposition in using more advanced
intelligent technology, and how that will add, and level out theirapprehensions. By
the end of this paper, the reader should be able to understand emerging threats, as
they are rapidly changing, in succession, adopting new attack patterns, targeting
application based computing, and assuming more lucrative attack scenarios.
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March 16, 2012
Overview
Cloud Computing, as they say, is an old idea, officiated through new technology.
The inclusions added over the years, give distributed computing new depth,
growing from an infantile rationality to what we view as a distributed cloud model,
or fabric, today.
As history shows us, we transgress from the typical roaming profile to VDI (Virtual
Desktop Infrastructure), from smartphones, to mobile computing platforms, from
virtualization to full elastic computing. As we grow and feel the pains of adjusting to
such development, our security infrastructure must follow closely to account for
changes. With this in mind, take a look at the technological hurdles we have leaped,
through the mastery of innovation, and then visualize how security mustfollow.
Threats have become more brazen, and have targeted objectives; ones, which if
overlookedwill have drastic consequences. We moved beyond the typical DOS
(Denial of Service) attacks, to cyber-criminals targeting serversat the application
layer; these emerging and advanced persistent threats are distributedwith the sole
purpose, being monetary gain. Information or data theft has become one of the
number one issues surrounding monetary loss from a corporate and end-user
standpoint.
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With the increase in distributed architectures, such as cloud computing, we alter the
direction of, not only how we achieve business IT objectives, but in the way in which
we enable our internal IT establishments. The industry is seeing a gradual, yet
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http://www.riskandinsurancechalkboard.com/uploads/file/Ponemon Study(1).pdf
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March 16, 2012
definitive, shift towards these models as a whole, through not only the typical server
venues, but alsosimilarly the change in mobile computing. The “distributed model”
has multiple issues such as scalability, application elasticity, orchestration,
automation, etc., these are not as difficultorcomplex as cloud security itself. Unlike
legacy or local area computing, which communicates primarily through layers 1-4,
Cloud is labeled as being much more application based and communicates primarily
through layers 4-7 of the OSI model. There are also concerns regarding user, and
usability, such as remote user authentication, to a much higher degree. This is
takingdata, or information security to a new parallel, understanding application
communication, how these processes, and protocols effectively communicate, and
how to manage overall security for such fabrics. The underlying fact is, that because
of this shift, attacks have transitioned from the transitional signatures, to the more
advanced attack scenarios, such as advanced persistent attacks (APT).2
In recent years, the security industry has been inundated with news of
informationtheft or dissemination of internal proprietary data, penetrations
resulting in catastrophic loss, through attacks programmatically engineered,
targeting application based computing. These subjects are far outweighed by
security vendors themselves having issues themselves, with theft or loss of data, and
the distribution of classified material, from multiple government agencies. Such
concerns are mostly internal, and do not translate to hybrid or public cloud
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http://www.cio.com.au/article/406586/assessing_apt_threat/?fp=4&fpid=18
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March 16, 2012
computing, not because it hasn’t, or could happen, but the under utilization of public
resources. These anomalies can generally point toward fear of losing control over
resources, and/or general mistrust of the public/hybrid cloud, due to overall lack
ofsecurity or concerns regarding security capabilities as a whole. 3. As it stands
today, cloud overall, is an annual $37B enterprise, growing exponentially, to an
estimated $121B by 20154, and only a portion is related to Public Cloud.5
Elastic computing models could save organization billions in overall hardware costs,
head count, and increase revenue. The “on-demand” ability to scale up or down
seamlessly offers a dynamic value add to DR (Disaster Recovery), and HA (High
Availability), as well as the “pay for what you use” model offer a great value-add to
small, medium, and enterprise customers across the board. Hybrid Cloud usage
combines public and private fabrics, allowing the ability to gain functionality from
public cloud resources, and in tandem, utilize private cloud resources internally.
Although these models are best of breed, they exhibitsome of thesame
characteristics regarding security, and even add more legitimacy as the solutions
breed more complexity.
Proportionally the public cloud is utilized, under the auspices of an unsecured fabric.
Although security itself, if you want to route requests through a physical portal, is
rather robust. There are several organizations offering solutions stacks,
surrounding the usage of public cloud without the necessity of rerouting data,
mostly packages, which rely on agent based architectures, or virtual appliances
utilizing agents within the virtual instance itself. These solutions, although robust in
nature, are somewhat diluted by the inability to manage multiple rule sets, and/or
the ability to communicate with other virtual appliances within the fabric, and
functionally forget about the hypervisor structure itself. The idea of managing a
singular blade server, through one virtual appliance, has been brought up in many
different fashions, from usability to the assumption of managing each blade server
in a separate virtual container.6
Some issues surrounding these architecture genres’ stem from the idea of resource
pools, and the presence of multiple virtual appliances within pools. From this we
can discern that the possibilities of collisions between these appliances are a
definite possibility, as well as manageability concerns of the pools themselves, i.e.
“what handles what and where?”
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"Hype Cycle for Cloud Application Infrastructure Services (PaaS), 2011") – Gartner Review
Cloud Application Infrastructure Services. Cloud application infrastructure services (also known as platform as a service, or PaaS) form the foundation of a cloud computing
platform by enabling development, execution, management and life cycle control for cloud-based application solutions (see"Hype Cycle for Cloud Application Infrastructure
Services (PaaS), 2011"). It is a less developed and less understood layer in the cloud computing architecture when compared with system infrastructure services (IaaS) and
application services (SaaS), but is the fastest growing with innovation and new vendor investments.
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http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/cloud-computing-234.html The global cloud computing market is expected to grow from $37.8 billion in 2010 to $121.1
billion in 2015 at a CAGR of 26.2% from 2010 to 2015. SaaS is the largest segment of the cloud computing services market, accounting for 73% of the market’s revenues 2010.
The major SaaS-providers include Adobe Web Connect, Google Mail, Cisco WebEx, and Yahoo Mail. Content, communications, and collaboration (CCC) accounts for about 30%
of the SaaS market revenues.
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Cloud computing's fear factor: Acknowledge, reduce, move on http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/12/cloud-computing-the-fear-facto.htmlYou also need to be aware and mitigate your
security concerns. It's possible the security risk is over-stated. Most of us do personal online banking don't we? And aren't huge components of our infrastructure such as energy,
financial markets, and the military already large consumers of the cloud? (Little consolation, I agree, when there is a breach -- but a fact on the ground you can't deny). I argue
that in the short-term these issues are about deliberate and diligent organizational planning and in the long-term it's simply about normal business continuity design. When
something innovative becomes widely adopted, it just becomes business as normal.
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Hype Cycle for Privacy, 2011 http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=214943&ref=g_fromdocPrivacy. The first "Hype Cycle for Privacy, 2011" is a tool for privacy
officers and other IT professionals who have a responsibility for privacy in the organization. As attention to privacy as a whole reaches a peak, it justifies a closer look at which
regulations are emerging and which have matured, and which technologies are deployed to deal with legal requirements and cultural expectations
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March 16, 2012
In any Cloud scenario, the presence of a “Single Pane of Glass” management
methodology should be commonplace to function as a “Manager of Managers”, offering
the capability of “Cross Platform Management”, and a central point of configuration.
Within the typical data security model, this becomes a little bit more difficult, as
communication between devices, is considered to be bad practice. However, there are
various ways in which management of solutions could be learned, without direct
connection and/or communication. Offeringmanagement structures allows the
administrators to streamline operations across multiple machines, resources pools, and
the ability to manage heterogeneous, multitenant environments, which are becoming
more prevalent in the cloud industry.
Programmaticallymodifying these methodologies, as our technological capabilities
increase, is a must, as we are faced with novel attack scenarios that hamper our
securitypolicies and procedures. Intelligent systems, with the capability of learning
patterns within these transmissions, “protocol and application behavior analysis”, “packet
assembly and de-assembly”, are becoming more established, as these threats matrixes
mature, some utilizing the same signatures, but altering behavior. As our tool-sets
develop, utilizing new technology to assess, interrogate, track, and assemble,
transmissions are becoming more difficult to decode, as threats are focusing on
applications, rather than the typical hardware based communications.
These new genres‟ of attacks have surfaced, bringing a new mantra on how we protect
our assets. We hear more about theft of proprietary information, infiltration of financial
institutions, andintrusions within the defense industry. Advanced threats take on a new
intonation, one of singularity, the focus is to either obtain information through illegal
means, funneling monetary value from an institution, or disseminating information over
the wire to discredit an organization or cause harm to individuals.
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http://superconductor.voltage.com/2011/07/breaches-vs-european-countries.html
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All thesedevelopments focus on one subject, causing disruption for monetary gain, the
ability to use stealth like technologies to mask intrusion over multiple sessions,
resembling internally to avoid detection. Although there have always been those whom
have desired to gain from these acts, the ever growing presence of ones who have a
harmful intent, have drastically increased. With that increase, so have their technologies,
as attack methods become more sophisticated.8
The ability to forensically approach these issues, and “dig deeper” into the behavior of
either the protocol or applications being assessed, the way in which the packets are being
transmitting, or the destination of the request itself. All thesepoints must be met, in order
to secure a fabric such as the “cloud”. How “we” manage these issues will be key in
stopping the intrusion, and/or the unlawful dissemination of proprietary data. Delving
into the behavior of such transmissions, and the protocol or application itself is where
technology is headed. The ability to assess the transmission, and the way in which the
protocol, or application, is behaving is the essence in which we can discern its‟ true
nature, or the proper use of the transmission destination. Focusing on the behavior is key,
whether that is protocol, or application based transmission, being able to interrogate that
data assists in the ability of alerting or stopping the intrusion or transmission of
proprietary information. By way of cohesively applying target based processors assigned
to a varied number of protocols or applications,it is possible to determine if there is a
malicious nature to a transmission, in which, again is possible to alert or drop associated
packets or sessions, depending on the destination or the desire of dropping vs. alerting.
This is accomplished by encapsulating the virtual instance, or instances, in which affords
the capability of interrogating packets and transmissions through protocol/application
analysis and/or behavior.
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Common Monitoring and Management Solutions
http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/blog/2011/5/3/who-moved-my-cloud/334.aspx
A single pane of glass is often required to provide a unified look of the entire infrastructure. This will provide an auditor the ability to verify the provider is delivering the level of
service guaranteed by the solution. Auditors often look for event handling and common management across all systems. By automating the deployment of such monitoring
solutions, and relying on a common platform for the management (including patch management, software revision control, and system lockdown procedures) a level of assurance
can be provided to the auditor that all systems are uniform and follow the controls of the monitoring and management criteria.
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In reality, the logical way of determining attack protocols is to measure what is normal vs.
what isn‟t. In kind, that measurement should incorporate the “normal” behavior of a
system, thereby being able to determine, or decipher what isn‟t. This realization elevates
the need for determining the behavior of like application or system attacks. Attaching or
capturing the “DNA” or “foot print” of normal activity within the actions or behavior of
such protocols, applications, or servers one will be able to determine the actions of any
malicious activity, including emerging threats, being able to remediate such activity in an
in-line, or on-tap scenario.
The same concept holds true in reference to the cloud, public, hybrid or private,again
being far underutilized, mainly because worries of the inability to remain compliant, and
the underlying factor, lack of a cohesive security solution. The same does not hold true
in other locations, as use is increasing, especially in Europe as the market expands. Some
of the reasoning for the anomaly is compliancy restrictions, referred to above, as well as
the loss of control, security concerns, and the ability to operate autonomously throughout
the fabric. These anxieties arise from the inability to control our own infrastructure,
someone else having access to that technology, and/or the ability to access information
remotely.9
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http://wallstreetandtech.com/2012-outlook/the-cloudThe move to the public cloud also will be dictated by the size of the institution. Small to mid-size firms that do not have their
own proprietary data centers will be among the first to move to the low-cost capacity the public cloud offers, while larger banks will initially continue to utilize their large, private
clouds.
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EncapsulatingCloud environments, whether that be physical, virtual, or Hybrid/Public
Cloud based, allows for “dual vector” protection from the „outside in‟, and „inside out‟,
affords organizations a value add, gaining back some of that control. Increasing the
ability to see what is emerging, not only within the IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service)
layer, but also in the SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) or application layer. This allows the
use to gain control, by protecting resources as if they were internal. This is accomplished
via location parameters, and use of proprietary models that encompass the resources in a
secured mesh, thereby allowing for protection of the resources through a holistic model.
This enables the deployment of high-value, high-risk Cloud applications, while
mitigating the risks associated with such applications. Intrusion detection and Prevention
must include attack recognition beyond simple signature matching, and the ability to drop
malicious sessions as opposed to simple resetting of connections.10
We must become more knowledgeable in way we conduct security operations, and how
we design systems to manage and remediate breaches. Intelligent systems capable of
managing such traffic, network discovery, analyzing traffic patterns and protocols,
officiates processes, as they do not rely on application changes or structure. These tool-
sets attendto traffic, patterns, and protocol behavior, adopting a set of rules capable of
matching like patterns to suspicious activity. There must be an ability to incorporate
intelligence, and machine learning technology, to combat these changes, capitalizing
onprotocol and application behavior, and DNA patterns of the transmissions. These
actions must be met with a robust, like minded, response to a malicious action, with the
capability of forensic level capture, affording the capability to stay compliant, in a time
where compliancy is so integral to vital business initiatives.
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Public sector cloud use on the rise
http://www.thecloudcircle.com/article/public-sector-cloud-use-rise The number of public sector organizations using the cloud is rising steadily, if not spectacularly, the Cloud
Industry Forum, with 11 per cent increased clouds usage over the last nine months. The independent study of the latest cloud adoption rates showed that of the 300 UK-based
organizations surveyed, 53 per cent are utilizing cloud services in some form. The private sector continues to lead the public sector with 56 per cent and 49 per cent respectively.
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