TY - GEN
T1 - Towards the certification of cloud services
AU - Cimato, Stelvio
AU - Damiani, Ernesto
AU - Zavatarelli, Francesco
AU - Menicocci, Renato
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The need of a certification process for cloud-based services is emerging as a way to address some of the remaining obstacles facing the effective development and diffusion of the cloud-computing paradigm. In this paper we move the first steps towards a complete approach containing a conceptual framework where the specifications of basic, hybrid and incremental certification models for cloud-based services can be given. Specifically, we focus on the definition of a unifying meta-model to provide representational guidelines for (i) the definition of the security properties to be certified (ii) the types of evidence underlying them (iii) the phases of the certificate life cycle, as well as of all mechanisms for generating supporting evidence.
AB - The need of a certification process for cloud-based services is emerging as a way to address some of the remaining obstacles facing the effective development and diffusion of the cloud-computing paradigm. In this paper we move the first steps towards a complete approach containing a conceptual framework where the specifications of basic, hybrid and incremental certification models for cloud-based services can be given. Specifically, we focus on the definition of a unifying meta-model to provide representational guidelines for (i) the definition of the security properties to be certified (ii) the types of evidence underlying them (iii) the phases of the certificate life cycle, as well as of all mechanisms for generating supporting evidence.
KW - meta-model; cloud computing; certificate; certification models
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84888067180&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/SERVICES.2013.16
DO - 10.1109/SERVICES.2013.16
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84888067180
SN - 9780768550244
T3 - Proceedings - 2013 IEEE 9th World Congress on Services, SERVICES 2013
SP - 92
EP - 97
BT - Proceedings - 2013 IEEE 9th World Congress on Services, SERVICES 2013
T2 - 2013 IEEE 9th World Congress on Services, SERVICES 2013
Y2 - 27 June 2013 through 2 July 2013
ER -