@inproceedings{e2d3c558247b4e8695ef60a51529e177,
title = "Assessing the security of the cloud environment",
abstract = "Nowadays, many organizations find it economically attractive to host their services in a cloud environment. Still, security remains the number one concern for many organizations in adopting the cloud services. In this paper, we assess and study the security of a typical cloud environment as that of the popular Amazon AWS Cloud. The cloud security is assessed by deploying and running Dionaea honeypots for a few months in the cloud provide networks. Collected data and logs from Dionaea honeypots show that the cloud environment is surprisingly insecure and is in fact a target of malicious activities and attacks from different countries.",
keywords = "Amazon AWS, Cloud Computing, Cloud Security, Dionaea, EC2, Honeypots",
author = "Awadhi, {Eman Al} and Khaled Salah and Thomas Martin",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1109/IEEEGCC.2013.6705785",
language = "British English",
isbn = "9781479907243",
series = "2013 7th IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition, GCC 2013",
pages = "251--256",
booktitle = "2013 7th IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition, GCC 2013",
note = "2013 7th IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition, GCC 2013 ; Conference date: 17-11-2013 Through 20-11-2013",
}