From Security to Assurance in the Cloud: A Survey
Ardagna, C. A., Asal, R., Damiani, E., & Vu, Q. H. (2015). From security to assurance in the cloud: A survey. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 48(1), 1-50.
The survey of this paper focuses on the interface between cloud security and cloud security assurance. First, the author outlines the state-of-the-art in cloud security. We then introduce the concept of cloud security assurance and analyze its growing impact on cloud security approaches. In the public cloud vision, infrastructure, platforms and software services are provided to tenants (i.e. customers and service providers) on a pay-as-you-go basis. Compared to traditional on-premises resources, cloud tenants can use cloud resources at lower prices, higher performance, and flexibility without having to care about infrastructure management. Nonetheless, cloud tenants still care about the service levels of the cloud and the non-functional properties that their applications can rely on. Finally, based on the advantages and features discussed above, the article makes some recommendations for the development of next-generation cloud security and assurance solutions. This article is informative and informative about some of the content discussed, but it is not systematic, and only gives some suggestions at the end. Authors should still be able to make extensions to existing techniques.