Even the compromised hypervisor will not let the attacker take full control of, the system. 4.2.4. The work in these areas will greatly help the users to perform. 1.1. Zomaya, SeDaSC: secure data sharing in clouds, IEEE Syst. By classifying the selected RE models for security aspects based on deep learning techniques, we determine that the Loucopoulos and Karakostas iterative requirements engineering process model performs better than all the other models. C. Wang, Q. Wang, K. Ren, N. Cao, W. Lou, Toward secure and dependable storage services in cloud computing, IEEE Trans. Afterwards, the CloudSec requests for Kernel Structure Definition, (KSD) through the hypervisor (a hypervisor is assumed to be a trusted entity in the CloudSec). The obtained constraints are then submitted to a constraint solver, namely Sugar, in order to verify the properties and to pinpoint potential misconfiguration problems. In case of a valid transmission, the OpenFlow message is sent to the appropriate virtual switch to rewrite, the packet with destination/source IP addresses replaced with identifiers. More precisely, we propose a systematic verification approach to check the compliance of security configurations. The generated OS view is used by the defense modules of the CloudSec. The aforementioned limitations served as motivation for a, . Educational Experiment Workshop, 2013, pp. and utilization improvement for computing paradigms that are not pay-per-use such, Most collaborative UAVs applications are built using traditional technologies that need the dedication of huge development efforts, time, and budget. The. The proposed model. The Address Independent Seed, tree are used for encryption and integrity checking, respectively. All the, programs can be run entirely exterior to the OS. Nevertheless, a, stringent methodology is required for traffic monitoring that creates a balance between privacy and monitoring. Public cloud solutions are seen as the most vulnerable options from a security perspective, leaving many federal customers to seek private alternatives to overcome security challenges. All of the information about, software packages and the VMs is stored at the central database. Like traditional computing devices, the mobile devices are also prone to vulnerabilities of malicious code. This chapter gives an overview on the cloud computing concept followed by a description on mobile cloud computing and the different security issues pertinent to the mobile cloud computing environment. The user enjoys certain, ventional computing model. 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Security issues from the technological and operational point of view were not in the, scope of the aforesaid study. All these characteristics demand that conventional identity man-, agement and access control systems are not enough for the cloud environment, and strict access control mechanisms to control unauthorized operations within the cloud, some control of organizations over identity management system to quickly update the access control policies in case of, access control, for example, denial of service by account lock-out, weak credential reset mechanisms, insufficient authoriza-, tion checks, cross domain authentication, insufficient logging and monitoring possibilities, weakness of eXtensible Access. If the memory pages and vCPU contain private, information of DomU, the hypervisor make sure that they are encrypted. Softw. Recent advancements in the domain of cloud computing (CC) and big data technologies leads to an exponential increase in cloud data, huge replica data utilized the available memory space and maximum computation brought a major issue to the restricted cloud storage space. Freire, P. RM Inácio, Security issues in cloud environments: a survey, Int. The VM migration, poses different security issues as discussed in Section, ing we present techniques presented in the literature that handle VM migration. 29 (10) (2014) 16–24, Service clouds: towards performance modeling, Future Gener. The cloud after receiving decrypts the data, verifies the signature and stores at the designated, partitions in the cloud. attack by secure logging and auditing of VM operations (suspend, resume, migration). Parallel Distrib. Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT), 2013, pp. The cross tenant attacks are also neutralized by constant monitoring of the VMs running at host platform. The Hyper-, utilized the principle of least privilege to reduce the attack surface of hyper-, adopted a similar approach to reduce the attack surface by providing an isolated runtime environ-, also reduce the trusted computing base and restrict the functionality of hypervisor in root mode for secur-, presented a design that does not reduce the hypervisor attack surface. The File Assured Deletion (FADE) protocol that furnishes key management along with the data privacy and integrity is, symmetric keys are protected by using Shamirs (, group of key managers (KM) that act as a trusted third party. Moreover, the authors of. 4. technologies, which allow cloud service providers to segregate and isolate multiple clients on a common set of physical or virtual hardware. . A basic need for cloud computing services is to provide them with sound ”Information Security Risk Management (ISRM)” solutions. The erasure correcting code and, homomorphic tokens are used for the aforesaid purpose. The ABE in TimePRE uses eligible time periods for a user, along with other attributes to identify a user. The kernel data rootkit attacks and intrusions are detected by introspection. 19 (2), R. Schwarzkopf, M. Schmidt, C. Strack, S. Martin, B. Freisleben, Increasing virtual machine security in cloud environments, J. Any memory access to the DomU is allowed after the grant of permissions by the DomU. should be in place until VMs are patched. The following terms will be used throughout this document: Furthermore, we unpack three major contingency factors, i.e., client-provider ratio, specificity, and service delivery model, which influence the reasonability and configuration of the cloud management processes. This proposed cloud offers different opportunities in UAVs applications development and deployment; however, some technical challenges are present and need to be addressed before the actual benefits can be realized at a cost-effective price. The, analysis module on the monitor machine analyses the memory contents based on the linearity, stability, and perpetuity, properties. The OPS probes the VMS for software vulnerabilities by using reputable security, practices. The proposed framework provides the same level of privacy, and integrity at the destination as that of source host. in utilization and energy consumption in a static setting as workloads run with lower frequencies and energy Isolation is not only needed on storage devices but memory and computational hardware also needs fine grained isolation of, can provide attacker access to other VMs or can bring the VMM down, to the computing and storage hardware. Additionally, the proposed scheme per-, forms error localization by detecting the misbehaving server. To mitigate the vulnerabilities in VMs by patching fixes, Schwarzkopf et al. private cloud deployment model inherits the same set of vulnerabilities as possessed by the conventional IT infrastructure. Dependable Secure Comput. The firewall layer is responsible for safeguarding against the spoofing attacks from the shared network. The proposed framework was implemented on Xen hypervisor. The proposed model is divided into three layers, namely: (a) rout-, ing, (b) firewall, and (c) shared network layer. However, migration to a, different cloud is not an easy task. Netw. For decryption all the data is downloaded from the cloud and, proposed a time based proxy re-encryption combined, presents the comparison of the methodologies pre-, recommends that the security to the cloud applications and APIs, Security and privacy requirements (both functional and regulatory) should be defined in accordance to the needs of the, The risks and attack vectors specific to the cloud computing must be explored and assimilated into the security require-. It is exceptionally important to keep track of the user’s identity and controlling unauthorized access to, due to the fact that the owner and resources are in different administrative domains and organization’s authentication and, authorization may not be exported to the cloud in the existing form, may deal with users of different organization with different authentication and authorization frameworks, at the same time, nization and cloud may give rise to complex situations over time, addresses are frequently reassigned, the services are started or re-started over shorter periods of time, pay-as-you-use, feature allows the users to join and leave cloud frequently. The cloud computing paradigm emerged shortly after the introduction of the 'invisible' grid concepts but it has taken only a few years for cloud computing to gain enormous momentum within industry and academia alike. Chapter 8 Cloud Computing 551 8.1 Cloud Computing Concepts 551 Service Models 552 Deployment Models 552 8.2 Moving to the Cloud 553 Risk Analysis 553 Cloud Provider Assessment 554 Switching Cloud Providers 556 Cloud as a Security Control 557 8.3 Cloud Security Tools and Techniques 560 Data Protection in the Cloud 561 Cloud Application Security 566 An increase in rate of warning generations is treated as a security threat, that activates the actuator module for reaction according to the security policies. 1971 0 obj <>stream Virtual network is a logical network built over a physical network. For the computation security, the SecCloud utilizes Merkle hash tree. 21 (4) (2013) 562–587. In case of successful update, other VMs of that particular class. The two main phases of the proposed privacy preservation system are the data sanitization and restoration. 29 (5) (2013) 1254–1264. J. K. Bilal, S.U.R. Cloud Comput. Moreover, the MAC addresses are replaced by the. Unlike other proxy re-encryption schemes, the TimePRE does not require the data owner to be online for, user revocation and generation of new re-encryption keys. However, by hosting the data, cloud computing offers businesses high flexibility, agility, and cost savings. The basic working of ImageElves resembles the technique presented in, software running on the VMs. The data is transmitted between VMs in peer-to-peer (P2P) manner, without transiting through the central server. J. Groth, Amit Sahai, Efficient non-interactive proof systems for bilinear groups, in: Advances in Cryptology EUROCRYPT, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, B. Guan, J. Wu, Y. Wang, S.U. In this paper, we proposed Elliptic Curve Cryptography scheme as a secure tool to model a Secured platform for the Cloud Application. 23 (2011), S.M.S. Run time assurance mechanism to ensure that services are, delivered as per requirement is also an important open research area. The encryption of data before outsourcing to the cloud ensures the privacy of the data but poses certain restriction. R. Latif, H. Abbas, S. Assar, Q. Ali, Cloud computing risk assessment: a systematic literature review, in: Future Information Technology, Springer. 3.1.1. The compromised security application or the device may result in compromised identity as well, . ments. The access control is ensured by use of, ABE that identifies user by set of attributes rather than identity. upsurges the capabilities of the hardware resources by optimal and shared utilization. The cloud applications inherit the same vulnerabilities as traditional Web applications and, technology. Risks will vary depending on the sensitivity of the data to be stored or processed, and how the chosen cloud vendor (also referred to The authors assume Platform Trust Assurance Authority (PTAA) as a third party for trust certification. Comput. and data integrity, DoS, and evasion attacks. Additionally, the CyberGuarder also provide VM security through the integrity verification of applica-, tions and by monitoring of system calls invoked by the applications. Alternatively, the compute intensive tasks of encryption/decryption can be moved to, has also witnessed that academia and research community is actively pursuing the security issues and several, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2014.08.010. The cryptographic mechanisms are used to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and freshness of the transmitted data. Methods to Ensure Security in the Cloud 4.1 Countermeasures for Security Risks 4.2 Methods to ensure Data security 5. A separate VM is instantiated for each user that virtually provides a complete operating machine to the, ronment. Moreover, there exists com-, munication within cloud between VMs. The memory locations within, the processors and outside used for storing data temporarily may be the target of attack. On the other hand, organizations do not enjoy administrative control of cloud services and, organizations. Lastly, it is worthy to mention that although the security solutions provide, also introduce computational and cost overhead. the proposed scheme. to provide network security for the overall host platform. Moreover, there is a need to find security solutions that create a balance, between the security requirements and performance. This becomes a serious challenge as malicious activities of the VMs go beyond the monitoring of security tools. on Services Computing (SCC), 2013, pp. The authors in, visor and to ensure the security of other system components and resources. Nevertheless, the discussion on future research directions is lacking in, current and latest security solutions. However, security and privacy issues pose as the key roadblock to its rapid adoption. Inform. 4. 187–196. The resources are provided to the users and released based on demands from the pool of shared resources, . A.N. The services should have import/export function into standards such as XACML and OASIS. The cloud that is run and managed only for a single organization is the private cloud. Cloud Comput. Network Security, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012, pp. Vasilakos, Security and privacy for storage and computation in cloud computing, Inform. The above given models providing the mentioned characteristics are implemented using var-, ious technologies, for example virtualization and multi-tenancy. The proposed framework can manage the identity man-, agement and access control across multiple CSPs where the AMs coordinate with each other to provide identity management, and access control services. Inform. Challenges at contractual and legal levels, Adopting the cloud computing, results in moving the organizations data and applications to the administrative control of, CSP. Based on this analysis, this study derives a detailed specification of the cloud live virtual machine migration integrity problem and key features that should be covered by the proposed framework. A user can create his/her own VM image or can use an, . The user generates an authentication, certificate from the obtained credentials. Advanced cloud protection system (ACPS) is proposed in, resources. Existing and proposed solutions are also presented with particular attention to the security as a service approach. The session key is calculated through Bilinear Deffie-Hellman both, by the user and the cloud. However, providing adequate interoperability and security support by those complex distributed systems is of primary importance for the wide adoption of cloud computing by the end users. Traditional ways of managing information technology (IT) service providers are no longer applicable as companies use more and more services provi-sioned in the cloud. Moreover, the rollback can also render the VM to a vul-, . The, also utilized trusted computing for secure VM-vTPM migration. The consumer calls the API by using the token signed with its private key. are the conventional issues that were, present in the respective technologies even before the appearance of the cloud computing paradigm. of code in the SVM. The interceptor module is responsible for detecting any suspicious activities at the host. Upon the expiration of the policy the KM deletes the corresponding keys and P, through secure overwriting that makes the data inaccessible and therefore assuredly deleted. For example, vulnerabilities in the Xen, Microsoft Virtual PC, and Micro-, soft Virtual Server can be abused by attackers to gain privileged rights, of the already instantiated VMs are in idle state. VMs. The security measures taken by the cloud service providers (CSP) are generally transparent to the, . The basic function of this model is projected by [12]. The management of the technology and services, . The user application is then registered with the security providing clouds that provide security services. TAL of hosted platform. outside, the administrative control in a shared environment where numerous users are collocated, escalates the security concerns. 1) The sensitivity of the information to be stored and/or processed in the cloud; and 2) The potential impact of an event that results in the loss of confidentiality, integrity or availability of that information • Cloud Security Model (CSM) defined 6 Information Impact Levels • Cloud Computing SRG defines 4 Information Impact Levels Most of the proposed solution typically follow a similar architecture based on a preconfigured, static and closed circle of trust, in which interactions are only possible with pre-configured entities. In all cases, a cloud computing solution will only be considered after a thorough risk evaluation has been completed, reviewed and accepted by the Ministry’s Chief Information Security Officer or delegate. The key for transmission is managed by the monitor machine. general. the terms of SLA. Some of the available directions for future work are also discussed. A similar mechanism of logging and auditing to protect against the VM roll-, integrity of the snapshots. The infrastructure in the proposed scheme is seen as the Authorization, Manager (AM). Comput. information security, cloud computing elicits one of two responses: • Security issues make cloud computing very risky. The migration of user’s assets (data, applications, etc.) Comput. The re-useable software components that are known to alleviate the known security and breach scenarios should be used. de-privileged DeHype. 5 Cloud Computing Benefits, risks and recommendations for information security There are three categories of cloud computing: -Software as a service (SaaS): is software offered by a third party provider, available on demand, usually via the Internet configurable remotely. For other frameworks, there is no specified model to manage trust between cloud service providers and identity providers, as cloud service providers must decide by themselves which identity providers are trustworthy. The, SMM module reads and verifies the contents of the CPU registers of the protected hypervisor. N. Gonzalez, C. Miers, F. Redgolo, M. Simplcio, T. Carvalho, M. Nslund, M. Pourzandi. To this end, we first elaborate on two properties, namely intrusion monitoring configuration preservation and VPN/IPsec protection configuration preservation. The encrypted image is then stored on the disk. Virtualization allows the use of same physical resources by, multiple customers. Dependable. The authors in. The software-based network components, such as bridges, routers, and software-based network configurations, support the networking of VMs over the same host. In case of memory and storage resources, a malicious user can employ data recovery techniques to, times. Malik, S.U. Besides authentication and authorization the diameter protocol also provides the accounting, cation execution in the cloud. exchange and share a huge amount of personal information. Moreover, insertion, deletion, modification, and appending of. A more integrated, solution will result in easy management of the security tool. Network Comput. The CSP is dealt as a host, while the services owner acts as an authorizing user. The matching results in detection of any obsolete software. applicable we explain our solutions in the context of Haizea. The top ten risks in the web appli-, cations have been identified by Open Web Application Security Project in 2013 to be the, The development, management, and use of Web applications must take into consideration the above given risks to safe-, guard the web applications and users resources. presented SecCloud, a storage security protocol that not only secures the user data uploaded into the, used a combination of established and specialized procedures besides additional proposed, utilized the concept of proxy re-encryption in addition to, . The data in the public partition needs no authentication. indicates that none of the presented technique fulfills all the tabulated security requirements. The key management should be performed by either the organizations/users themselves or by a trusted cryptographic. An API consumer requests for access token, from the API management platform that is granted along with a key after validating the request. We discuss policies, models, algorithms and cloud pricing strategies in general. L. Wei, H. Zhu, Z. Cao, X. Dong, W. Jia, Y. Chen, A.V. The CSP has a control over the underlying resources, There are four models that can be used to deploy a cloud computing infrastructure, namely: (a) private cloud, (b) public. The cloud service model is. Kiah, M. Ali, S.A. Madani, S. Shamshirband, BSS: block-based sharing scheme for secure data. ’’ denote whether the domain specified in the column has, provides the architectural framework of the cloud, highlights the security concerns in the mobile cloud com-, discusses the techniques and open issues and Section, . Appl. F. Liu, P. Shu, H. Jin, L. Ding, J. Yu, D. Niu, B. Li, Gearing resource-poor mobile devices with powerful clouds: architectures, challenges, and applications, Q. Liu, G. Wang, J. Wu, Time-based proxy re-encryption scheme for secure data sharing in. updates and roll backing in case of errors. The out of control cost of power in terms of electricity generation, personnel hardware and limited spaces in data centers have encouraged a significant number of enterprises to move more infrastructures into a third party provided Cloud. In reality it becomes unwise, and illogical to use multiple strategies of the same domain to achieve all the security requirements. A, CloudVisor also monitors the address translation to enforce memory isolation. A comparative analysis of the schemes to, provide secure execution of VMs is presented in, up to the user defined level. The virtualized. V. Varadharajan, U. Tupakula, Counteracting security attacks in virtual machines in the cloud using property based attestation, J. The cloud computing also needs security against insider threats. Clouds provide a powerful computing platform that enables individuals and organizations to perform variety levels of tasks such as: use of online storage space, adoption of business applications,development of customized computer software, and To this end, we encode these formulas as constraint satisfaction problems. M. Sookhak, H. Talebian, E. Ahmed, A. Gani, M.K. solutions to produce the desired security level. This scan is only, allowed at the boot up time with a temporary hypervisor so as to avoid any attack from user, After the scan the temporary hypervisor is disabled. Randomization is applied to the signatures for providing unlinkability. Both the keys, issued to API, provider and consumer, are the private keys. VM images at rest should be patched with the latest fixes as soon as required. The routing layer establishes a dedicated logical channel between virtual and, physical network. The working of FADE is depict-. Services Comput. These were the research objectives: Security Technologies (ISBAST), 2013, pp. The SECaaS rec-, proposed an API management platform for the cloud that provides access control architecture for the cloud. Khan, M.L.M. The update is first installed on. The discussion of, the presented technique has led ways to highlight some open issues to motivate the research community and academia to, This research was in part supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, CNS. and VMs through encryption and integrity functions and exposes only the necessary information to VMM or other VM. 35. K. Hashizume, D.G. The advantage of the scheme is that the user can keep the VMS up-to-date and administrators can, have a check that outdated software does not run on their system. The vocabulary is represented as an XML schema. All-of-Government Cloud Computing: Information Security and Privacy Considerations April 2014 3 Contents 1 Introduction 4 2 Overview of Cloud Computing 4 During the enforce-, ment phase, the SPEC recommends the enforcement either by activating parameters at system startup time or by monitoring. The image encryption module encrypts an image whenever a VM is terminated. • To design and validate the model, processes, and architectural features of the proposed framework; Secure and efficient management of identities remains one of the greatest challenges Instead more than one models become affected, such, and PaaS. The restrictions are specific to the situations where data is to be shared among the group and/or requires forwarding. Information. The VMs management and isolation is the, . Comput. There is a mapping between physical and virtual resources provided to the, The resources can be rapidly and elastically scaled as per customer’s demands. He, L.C.K. In the proposed scheme, the API provider registers and publishes the API, with the API management platform and obtains a key for validating the tokens. The monitoring is performed based on the logical IDs assigned by the routing layer. The. Version 3.0 includes the following updates: New worldwide privacy regulations taken into account. The proposed partitions, are public, private, and limited access partitions. 86 (09) (2013) 2263–2268, M. Sadiku, S. Musa, O. Momoh, Cloud computing: opportunities and challenges, IEEE Potentials 33 (1) (2014) 34–36, E. Schweitzer, Reconciliation of the cloud computing model with US federal electronic health record regulations, J. The algorithm updates the risk, evaluation according to the changes in the SLA. The larger the code, the greater the, number of points, that can be used to attack the hypervisor. lation is present between different VMS, the access to same physical resources can lead to data breach and cross-VM attacks. Comparison of techniques countering contractual and legal issues in the cloud. The users can, add and exclude functions (a hypervisor code is split into small functions) from the Guestvisor so as to avoid vulnerabilities, hypervisor attack surface completely. Moreover, the complete snapshot is compared with the initial snapshot of the hypervisor. The presence of large numbers of users that are not related to the organizations, aggravate the concerns, keep the customers under uncertainties about their digital assets located at the cloud resulting in, There are various studies in the literature discussing the security issues of the cloud computing. 9 (4) (2012) 373–392. 28 (2) (2012) 379–390, Aerospace Electron. environment, J. Supercomput. The system named NoHype, of the memory and cores, (b) use of virtualized I/O devices only, (c) system discovery process at the boot time of VM OS, and. A VM needs to be protected against attacks not only in repository but also needs to be secured during execution time. Likewise, for monitoring the m-OSAIC-based framework can be used in monitoring phase. destination host. The proposed, prohibits any memory access from Dom0 to DomU (user domain), . The SPICE exploits the concept of group signature and randomization for providing the, anonymous authentication (to prove user authenticity without revealing identity), delegatable authentication, unlinkability, (CSPs are unable to link the transactions of the same user), accountability, and user centric access control. presenting a set of resources in multiple UAVs as a set of mobile cloud services. The collector module downloads the images from the image repository and scans the images in the, repository to detect the outdated software and the presence of any malware. The process reduces the time consumption of each VM for proper functioning after. The SecCloud uses encryption for achieving the storage, security. Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), vol. Our final cloud management framework comprises ten processes for effective CSP management based on a literature study and twelve expert interviews. The VM, . The publishing and retrieval of the VM images is regulated by an access control framework. In short, the foremost issues in cloud data security include data privacy, data protection, data availability, data location, and secure transmission. The VM migration is carried out for a number of reasons, such as load balancing, fault tolerance, and, . The concluding remarks constitute the last part of the paper. Dhungana, A. Mohammad, A. Sharma, I. Schoen, Identity management framework for cloud networking infrastructure, in: IEEE International. Syst. Energy efficient computing has to achieve manifold objectives of energy consumption optimization Mag. Lui, R. Perlman, Secure overlay cloud storage with access control and assured deletion, IEEE Trans. Cloud computing offers potential benefits including cost savings and improved business outcomes for organisations. Resources on the cloud can be accessed through internet without self built infrastructure. Cloud Computing Security Wikipedia [3] defines Cloud Computing Security as “Cloud computing security (sometimes referred to simply as "cloud security") is an evolving sub-domain of computer security, network security, and, more broadly, information security. A VM monitor (VMM) or hypervisor is the module that manages the VMs and permits various operating systems, to run simultaneously on the same physical system, can evolve as a serious threat if it is used in malicious manner, to look for probable attack point. Sometime, the data may be present in more than one location having, different laws about digital security. R. Chandramouli, M. Iorga, S. Chokhani, Cryptographic key management issues and challenges in cloud services, S. Chaisiri, B. Lee, D. Niyato, Optimization of resource provisioning cost in cloud computing, IEEE Trans. The SPICE extends the Waters signature, group signature authenticates the user by ensuring that the signature is from a valid user of the group with the need of the, identity. Due to the fact that it is hard to distinguish between a legal vulnerability scan of network and, attacker activity, usually such scans are not allowed by the service providers. An important factor is the key strength, The cloud computing model does not deliver users with full control over data. Surv. The customers are, transparent about the location of the resources. To protect the cloud applications from unauthorized access, the authors in, protocol. Drawing on two specific cases from our interview study, we explicate the contingency factors' influence. 246–257. The metadata of the VMs, kept by the VMM, may also be, . Syst. 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