A New Enterprise Security Pattern: Secure Software as a Service (SaaS)

Santiago Moral-Garcia, Santiago Moral-Rubio, Eduardo B. Fernández, Eduardo Fernández-Medina

2012

Abstract

In recent years, the hiring of Software as a Service (SaaS) from cloud providers has become very popular. The advantages of using these services seem to be many, but organizations need to know and handle a variety of threats. Before using SaaS, organizations should check the security measures offered by the service provider and the defense mechanisms included in their enterprise security architectures. Security patterns are a good way to build and test new security mechanisms, but they have some limitations related to their usability. In order to improve the usability of security patterns, we have defined a new type of security pattern called Enterprise Security Pattern. In this paper, we show a brief description of enterprise security patterns, and document a new pattern that the organizations could apply to protect their information assets when using SaaS.

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in Harvard Style

Moral-Garcia S., Moral-Rubio S., B. Fernández E. and Fernández-Medina E. (2012). A New Enterprise Security Pattern: Secure Software as a Service (SaaS) . In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Security in Information Systems - Volume 1: WOSIS, (ICEIS 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-15-0, pages 14-26. DOI: 10.5220/0004088500140026


in Bibtex Style

@conference{wosis12,
author={Santiago Moral-Garcia and Santiago Moral-Rubio and Eduardo B. Fernández and Eduardo Fernández-Medina},
title={A New Enterprise Security Pattern: Secure Software as a Service (SaaS)},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Security in Information Systems - Volume 1: WOSIS, (ICEIS 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={14-26},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004088500140026},
isbn={978-989-8565-15-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Security in Information Systems - Volume 1: WOSIS, (ICEIS 2012)
TI - A New Enterprise Security Pattern: Secure Software as a Service (SaaS)
SN - 978-989-8565-15-0
AU - Moral-Garcia S.
AU - Moral-Rubio S.
AU - B. Fernández E.
AU - Fernández-Medina E.
PY - 2012
SP - 14
EP - 26
DO - 10.5220/0004088500140026