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A framework for establishing trust in Cloud provenance

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Provenance is a vital requirement for the success of Clouds, and it is associated with many challenges that are difficult to deal with. In this paper, we explore this area, we identify the problems in current Cloud provenance, we identify the challenges of having trustworthy secure Cloud provenance, and we identify the requirements which could address the identified challenges. We then propose a foundation framework for establishing trust in Cloud provenance. Finally, we draw our research agenda in this direction.

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  1. The author has more than 15 years of industrial expectance covering most technologies behind today’s Cloud infrastructure.

  2. VCC (as the case of OpenStack) could be deployed at a set of dedicated and collaborating devices that share a common database to support resilience, scalability and performance.

Abbreviations

CCA:

Cloud client agent

CMD:

Collaborating management domain

COD:

Collaborating outsourced domain

CSA:

Cloud server agent

DBMS:

Database management system

LaaS:

Log as a Service

LCA:

LaaS client agent

LSA:

LaaS server agent

MD:

Management domain

OD:

Outsourced domain

PCR:

A platform configuration register

TCG:

Trusted computing group

TP:

Trusted platform

TPM:

Trust platform module

VCC:

Virtual control centre

VM:

Virtual machine

VMA:

Virtual machine agent

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This research has been supported by the TClouds project, which is funded by the EU’s Seventh Framework Program ([FP7/2007–2013]) under grant agreement number ICT-257243.

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Abbadi, I.M. A framework for establishing trust in Cloud provenance. Int. J. Inf. Secur. 12, 111–128 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10207-012-0179-0

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