A major concern in the adoption of cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) arises from multi-
tenancy, where multiple tenants share the underlying physical infrastructure operated by a …

Cloud computing, while becoming more and more popular as a dominant computing
platform, introduces new security challenges. When virtual machines are deployed in a …

In an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud, virtualized IT resources such as compute,
storage and network are offered on demand by a cloud service provider (CSP) to its tenants …

Provenance data of a system resource provides historical information including the pedigree
of and past activities on the resource. This information is useful and has been demonstrated …

Recently, attribute based access control (ABAC) has received considerable attention from
the security community for its policy flexibility and dynamic decisionmaking capabilities. The …

Such a large collection of resources within virtual hosts is maximized among customers
(also known as tenants) with the objective to achieve the best result (ie, to provide the best …

Service oriented architecture (SOA) provides a flexible platform to build collaborative
Internet applications by composing existing self-contained and autonomous services …

The increased sharing of computational resources elevates the risk of side channels and
covert channels, where an entity's security is affected by the entities with which it is co …

Cloud Computing, an emerging internet technology that provides on-demand services to
end-users with high scalability in an efficient way over the internet. Enterprises in recent …

Cloud computing has transformed a large portion of the IT industry through its ability to
provision infrastructure resources–computing, networking, storage, and software–as …