EXPRESSING CLOUD SECURITY REQUIREMENTS IN DEONTIC CONTRACT LANGUAGES

Per Håkon Meland, Karin Bernsmed, Martin Gilje Jaatun, Astrid Undheim, Humberto Castejon

2012

Abstract

The uptake of Cloud computing is being hindered by the fact that not only are current Cloud SLAs written in natural language, but they also fail to cover security requirements. This paper considers a Cloud brokering model that helps negotiate and establish SLAs between customers and providers. This broker handles security requirements on two different levels; between the customer and the broker, where the requirements are stated in natural language; and between the broker and the different Cloud providers, where requirements are stated in deontic contract languages. We investigate the suitability of seven of those languages for expressing security requirements in SLAs and exemplify their use in the Cloud brokering model through a practical use case for a video streaming service.

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Meland P., Bernsmed K., Jaatun M., Undheim A. and Castejon H. (2012). EXPRESSING CLOUD SECURITY REQUIREMENTS IN DEONTIC CONTRACT LANGUAGES . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CloudSecGov, (CLOSER 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-05-1, pages 638-646. DOI: 10.5220/0003977906380646


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@conference{cloudsecgov12,
author={Per Håkon Meland and Karin Bernsmed and Martin Gilje Jaatun and Astrid Undheim and Humberto Castejon},
title={EXPRESSING CLOUD SECURITY REQUIREMENTS IN DEONTIC CONTRACT LANGUAGES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CloudSecGov, (CLOSER 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={638-646},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003977906380646},
isbn={978-989-8565-05-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CloudSecGov, (CLOSER 2012)
TI - EXPRESSING CLOUD SECURITY REQUIREMENTS IN DEONTIC CONTRACT LANGUAGES
SN - 978-989-8565-05-1
AU - Meland P.
AU - Bernsmed K.
AU - Jaatun M.
AU - Undheim A.
AU - Castejon H.
PY - 2012
SP - 638
EP - 646
DO - 10.5220/0003977906380646