Cloud security management suite — Security As a Service

Abstract

Cloud computing is the recent innovator which has lured the IT world with its attractive features like multi tenancy, massive scalability, elasticity, pay-as-you-use etc. However, this promising avenue is being loomed by the dark shades of security threats. The cloud users and the providers are equally concerned with the gaps in trust and privacy, identity and access management, auditing and accounting facilities available in the cloud infrastructure. We have proposed a model for comprehensive security management in the cloud environment. This model is envisioned as Security Management As a Service (SMaS) through which both cloud users and vendors can avail the facilities for Identity and Access Management, Trust and Privacy, Auditing and Accounting. The striking feature of our work is that its facilities can be utilized as per demand which is very essential for today's dynamic world. In addition SMaS helps customers to migrate securely to cloud environment with considerably less technical upgrade.