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A Secure and Fair Resource Sharing Model for Community Clouds
Cloud computing has gained a lot of importance and has been one of the most discussed segment of today\u27s IT industry. As enterprises explore the idea of using clouds, concerns have emerged related to cloud security and standardization. This thesis explores whether the Community Cloud Deployment Model can provide solutions to some of the concerns associated with cloud computing. A secure framework based on trust negotiations for resource sharing within the community is developed as a means to provide standardization and security while building trust during resource sharing within the community. Additionally, a model for fair sharing of resources is developed which makes the resource availability and usage transparent to the community so that members can make informed decisions about their own resource requirements based on the resource usage and availability within the community. Furthermore, the fair-share model discusses methods that can be employed to address situations when the demand for a resource is higher than the resource availability in the resource pool. Various methods that include reduction in the requested amount of resource, early release of the resources and taxing members have been studied, Based on comparisons of these methods along with the advantages and disadvantages of each model outlined, a hybrid method that only taxes members for unused resources is developed. All these methods have been studied through simulations
Dark clouds on the horizon:the challenge of cloud forensics
We introduce the challenges to digital forensics introduced by the advent and adoption of technologies, such as encryption, secure networking, secure processors and anonymous routing. All potentially render current approaches to digital forensic investigation unusable. We explain how the Cloud, due to its global distribution and multi-jurisdictional nature, exacerbates these challenges. The latest developments in the computing milieu threaten a complete “evidence blackout” with severe implications for the detection, investigation and prosecution of cybercrime. In this paper, we review the current landscape of cloud-based forensics investigations. We posit a number of potential solutions. Cloud forensic difficulties can only be addressed if we acknowledge its socio-technological nature, and design solutions that address both human and technological dimensions. No firm conclusion is drawn; rather the objective is to present a position paper, which will stimulate debate in the area and move the discipline of digital cloud forensics forward. Thus, the paper concludes with an invitation to further informed debate on this issue
CamFlow: Managed Data-sharing for Cloud Services
A model of cloud services is emerging whereby a few trusted providers manage
the underlying hardware and communications whereas many companies build on this
infrastructure to offer higher level, cloud-hosted PaaS services and/or SaaS
applications. From the start, strong isolation between cloud tenants was seen
to be of paramount importance, provided first by virtual machines (VM) and
later by containers, which share the operating system (OS) kernel. Increasingly
it is the case that applications also require facilities to effect isolation
and protection of data managed by those applications. They also require
flexible data sharing with other applications, often across the traditional
cloud-isolation boundaries; for example, when government provides many related
services for its citizens on a common platform. Similar considerations apply to
the end-users of applications. But in particular, the incorporation of cloud
services within `Internet of Things' architectures is driving the requirements
for both protection and cross-application data sharing.
These concerns relate to the management of data. Traditional access control
is application and principal/role specific, applied at policy enforcement
points, after which there is no subsequent control over where data flows; a
crucial issue once data has left its owner's control by cloud-hosted
applications and within cloud-services. Information Flow Control (IFC), in
addition, offers system-wide, end-to-end, flow control based on the properties
of the data. We discuss the potential of cloud-deployed IFC for enforcing
owners' dataflow policy with regard to protection and sharing, as well as
safeguarding against malicious or buggy software. In addition, the audit log
associated with IFC provides transparency, giving configurable system-wide
visibility over data flows. [...]Comment: 14 pages, 8 figure
Safer in the Clouds (Extended Abstract)
We outline the design of a framework for modelling cloud computing
systems.The approach is based on a declarative programming model which takes
the form of a lambda-calculus enriched with suitable mechanisms to express and
enforce application-level security policies governing usages of resources
available in the clouds. We will focus on the server side of cloud systems, by
adopting a pro-active approach, where explicit security policies regulate
server's behaviour.Comment: In Proceedings ICE 2010, arXiv:1010.530
ESPOON: Enforcing Security Policies In Outsourced Environments
Data outsourcing is a growing business model offering services to individuals
and enterprises for processing and storing a huge amount of data. It is not
only economical but also promises higher availability, scalability, and more
effective quality of service than in-house solutions. Despite all its benefits,
data outsourcing raises serious security concerns for preserving data
confidentiality. There are solutions for preserving confidentiality of data
while supporting search on the data stored in outsourced environments. However,
such solutions do not support access policies to regulate access to a
particular subset of the stored data.
For complex user management, large enterprises employ Role-Based Access
Controls (RBAC) models for making access decisions based on the role in which a
user is active in. However, RBAC models cannot be deployed in outsourced
environments as they rely on trusted infrastructure in order to regulate access
to the data. The deployment of RBAC models may reveal private information about
sensitive data they aim to protect. In this paper, we aim at filling this gap
by proposing \textbf{} for enforcing RBAC policies in
outsourced environments. enforces RBAC policies in an
encrypted manner where a curious service provider may learn a very limited
information about RBAC policies. We have implemented
and provided its performance evaluation showing a limited overhead, thus
confirming viability of our approach.Comment: The final version of this paper has been accepted for publication in
Elsevier Computers & Security 2013. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:1306.482
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