Tackling the loss of control: standards-based conjoint management of security requirements for cloud services

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Title: Tackling the loss of control: standards-based conjoint management of security requirements for cloud services
Author(s): Mueller, Ingo; Han, Jun; Schneider, Jean-Guy; Versteeg, Steven
Abstract: The loss of control over information assets is a major security and privacy concern in the Cloud. Service consumers typically have no insights which controls protect their information assets and how effectively. To tackle this challenge, we propose an approach where service providers and consumers conjointly manage security requirements for a Cloud service following the ISO 27001 standard for information security management. We have developed a security management platform that provides tool support for service providers and consumers (i) to specify and consolidate security requirements and (ii) to collect, measure, analyse and report information about the effectiveness of implemented controls. By involving service consumers in management activities following an international standard, our approach helps service providers to increase transparency and traceability of their security measures whereas service consumers gain much-needed insights in the protection of their information assets. The applicability of our approach is demonstrated with an example scenario.
Publication type: Conference paper
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
Source: Proceedings of the IEEE 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2011), Washington, D.C., United States, 04-09 July 2011 / Ling Liu and Manish Parashar (eds.), pp. 573-581
Publication year: 2011
Keyword(s): Cloud computing; Cloud computing security; Information security management
Publisher: IEEE
ISBN: 9780769544601, 0769544606
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CLOUD.2011.90
Peer reviewed