Addressing security compatibility for multi-tenant cloud services

  • Authors:

  • Khaled M. Khan;Abdelkarim Erradi;Saleh Alhazbi;Jun Han

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Qatar University, P.O. Box 2713, Doha, Qatar;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Qatar University, P.O. Box 2713, Doha, Qatar;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Qatar University, P.O. Box 2713, Doha, Qatar;Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Vic 3122, Australia

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

This paper addresses the issue of compatibility checking between the security requirements of service clients and the security assurances provided by multi-tenant cloud services. To allow early detection of security mismatches, our proposed framework provides a security ontology to support flexible specification of security policies and to allow semantic matching and run-time reasoning about the compatibility between security requirements and assurances of the interacting systems in multi-tenant service-oriented systems. The paper also defines various compositional models of a client based on the requirements of specific use context and users' profile of the client for a service.