Designing a Secure Cloud Architecture: The SeCA Model

  • Authors:
  • Marco Spruit;Thijs Baars

  • Affiliations:
  • Utrecht University, The Netherlands;Utrecht University, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Information Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Security issues are paramount when considering adoption of any cloud technology. This article proposes the Secure Cloud Architecture SeCA model on the basis of data classifications which defines a properly secure cloud architecture by testing the cloud environment on eight attributes. The SeCA model is developed using a literature review and a Delphi study with seventeen experts, consisting of three rounds. The authors integrate the CI3A-an extension on the CIA-triad-to create a basic framework for testing the classification inputted. The data classification is then tested on regional, geo-spatial, delivery, deployment, governance and compliance, network, premise and encryption attributes. After this testing has been executed, a specification for a secure cloud architecture is outputted.