Handbook of System Safety and Security

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A Design Methodology for Developing Resilient Cloud Services

C. Tunc¹, S. Hariri¹ and A. Battou²,    ¹University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States,    ²National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, United States

Abstract

Cloud computing is emerging as a new paradigm that aims at delivering computing as a utility. For the cloud computing paradigm to be fully adopted and effectively used, it is critical that the security mechanisms are robust and resilient to malicious faults and attacks. Security in cloud computing is of major concern and a challenging research problem since it involves many interdependent tasks including application layer firewalls, configuration management, alert monitoring and analysis, source ...