SECUPerf: End-to-End Security and Performance Assessment of Cloud Services

Abstract

As the International Data Corporation (IDC) estimated, public cloud services spending reached nearly 70B in 2015. While enterprise and public adoption of cloud applications and services is accelerating over time, security and performance remain as dominant concerns. As many studies try to address the security and performance of cloud data centers and cloud networks, it is unclear how to evaluate the end-to-end security and performance of cloud services. In this paper, we design and develop SECUPerf, a security and performance assessment approach, to address the aforementioned question. Furthermore, we leverage the Global Environment for Network Environments (GENI) to collect the security and performance metrics of cloud services and then evaluate SECUPerf on GENI. This paper focuses on the design and experimental evaluation procedure of SECUPerf. Our experiments show their effectiveness.