Authors:
Dana Petcu
and
Ciprian Crăciun
Affiliation:
West University of Timișoara, Romania
Keyword(s):
Cloud Monitoring, Security Monitoring, SLA Management.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Cloud Computing
;
Cloud Computing Enabling Technology
;
Monitoring of Services, Quality of Service, Service Level Agreements
;
Security, Privacy, and Compliance Management
Abstract:
Following the community concerns related to security and trust in cloud services, services level agreements
(SLAs) are nowadays revised to include security requirements. In order to speedup their take-up by the service
providers and consumers, security SLAs monitoring at run-time should be ensured. Several tools for SLA
management are available, but most of them are dealing with performance parameters, and not referring to
security. Other tools are available for cloud security monitoring, but not currently related or mapped to security
SLAs. Aiming to design and develop a security SLA-based cloud monitoring service, which can be deployed
or hosted, we identify in this paper the concepts, mechanism and available tools which can lead to a proper
design of such a service, as well as the main barriers to overcome.