Ontology of Secure Service Level Agreement

Maintaining security and privacy in the Cloud is a complex task. The task is made even more challenging as the number of vulnerabilities associated with the cloud infrastructure and applications are increasing very rapidly. Understanding the security service level agreements (SSLAs) and privacy poli...

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Published in2015 IEEE 16th International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering pp. 166 - 172
Main Authors Chen-Yu Lee, Kavi, Krishna M., Paul, Raymond A., Gomathisankaran, Mahadevan
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.01.2015
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Business
Cloud computing
Facebook
Monitoring
Ontologies
Privacy
Security
service level agreement
SLA
SSLA
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Summary:Maintaining security and privacy in the Cloud is a complex task. The task is made even more challenging as the number of vulnerabilities associated with the cloud infrastructure and applications are increasing very rapidly. Understanding the security service level agreements (SSLAs) and privacy policies offered by service and infrastructure providers is critical for consumers to assess the risks of the Cloud before they consider migrating their IT operations to the Cloud. To address these concerns relative to the assessment of security and privacy risks of the Cloud, we have developed ontologies for representing security SLAs (SSLA) in this paper. Our ontologies for SSLAs can be used to understand the security agreements of a provider, to negotiate desired security levels, and to audit the compliance of a provider with respect to federal regulations (such as HIPAA).
ISSN:1530-2059
2640-7507
DOI:10.1109/HASE.2015.33