Ontological approach toward cybersecurity in cloud computing

  • Authors:
  • Takeshi Takahashi;Youki Kadobayashi;Hiroyuki Fujiwara

  • Affiliations:
  • National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan;Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan;Solution Crew Inc., Osaka, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Security of information and networks
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Widespread deployment of the Internet enabled building of an emerging IT delivery model, i.e., cloud computing. Albeit cloud computing-based services have rapidly developed, their security aspects are still at the initial stage of development. In order to preserve cybersecurity in cloud computing, cybersecurity information that will be exchanged within it needs to be identified and discussed. For this purpose, we propose an ontological approach to cybersecurity in cloud computing. We build an ontology for cybersecurity operational information based on actual cybersecurity operations mainly focused on non-cloud computing. In order to discuss necessary cybersecurity information in cloud computing, we apply the ontology to cloud computing. Through the discussion, we identify essential changes in cloud computing such as data-asset decoupling and clarify the cybersecurity information required by the changes such as data provenance and resource dependency information.