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If Security and Privacy are the biggest concerns in cloud, how to find which Cloud Service Provider is safe? This paper proposes an idea to test the security of a Cloud Service Provider, in a way helping new customers adopting cloud, independently select their service provider. This testing will create a healthy competition among the service providers to satisfy their Service Level Agreement and improve their Quality of Service and trustworthiness.
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Ajay, D.M., Umamaheswari, E. (2016). An Initiation for Testing the Security of a Cloud Service Provider. In: Vijayakumar, V., Neelanarayanan, V. (eds) Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Big Data and Cloud Computing Challenges (ISBCC – 16’). Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 49. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30348-2_3
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