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Security is one of the most crucial elements of cloud solutions and at the same time one of the most important obstacles towards cloud adoption. This paper recommends a set of security-related guidelines for adoption by any advanced information system that aspires to offer DevOps capabilities for deploying and reconfiguring cross-cloud applications. These guidelines address several security challenges organised against three categories: user and component authentication, advanced access control and secure communication enablers. This paper also presents how specific security enhancements were designed, implemented and integrated for serving a PaaS platform that supports the lifecycle management of cross-cloud applications.
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 731664 (MELODIC project). The authors would also like to thank A. Michalas, A. Kuligowski and S. Kobus for their valuable insights.
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Verginadis, Y., Patiniotakis, I., Prusinski, M., Rozanska, M., Schork, S., Mentzas, G. (2020). A Security and Privacy-Preserving Path for Enhancing Information Systems that Manage Cross-Cloud Applications. In: Barolli, L., Amato, F., Moscato, F., Enokido, T., Takizawa, M. (eds) Web, Artificial Intelligence and Network Applications. WAINA 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1150. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44038-1_103
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