International center for monitoring cloud computing providers (ICMCCP) for ensuring trusted clouds

Cloud computing offers flexible and scalable IT (Information Technology) services for which many organizations are now interested in harnessing its benefit. In spite of the enthusiasm and great interest, Cloud computing has not yet earned full trust of the individual customers, banks, armed forces, governments, and companies who do sensitive computing tasks. While it is not the goal to persuade everyone to use the technology and some types of tasks are to be done with secrecy, for the general works done by the companies and customers, Cloud could be heavily used. However, it is very difficult to convince people that the Cloud Providers (CPs) would keep their data protected. To address this issue, what required is to employ some mechanism that can establish the trust of the users. With this motivation, in this paper, we present a novel concept for trust assurance in Cloud services with the proposal of implementing a Global Central Bank-like regulatory authority. Our initiative is termed International Center for Monitoring Cloud Computing Providers (ICMCCP). Various facets of ICMCCP model have been described alongside the policy making issues. Necessary backgrounds of Cloud are also presented

Building customer trust in cloud computing model

Building customer trust is a huge problem in the cloud computing paradigm. Today, hundreds of companies around the world are offering cloud services in major or minor scale with global or local reach. In spite of the availability of numerous establishments for cloud services, there is a critical link missing with the customers - and that is the lack of appropriate customer trust in the Cloud Provider’s (CP’s) services. The issue of trust in clouds has already been addressed from multiple technical perspectives where the researchers suggested solutions based on the existing knowledge in other computing and communications systems. After our investigation, we suggest a different concept of ensuring trust in cloud services by using the power of Information and Communications Technology (ICT). The basic idea lies in the fact that there should be a global standardization authority which would certify trusted cloud providers which in turn would earn customer trust. Novelty in this concept is mainly in its operational details that we have outlined. The main objective is to analyze various aspects of this proposed model from the policy making issues alongside slightly addressing technical issues. More issues about technicality and practicality can be addressed in future based on this initial framework