Security Issues of Cloud Computing

Security in Cloud Computing
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• A Easy word defined in very
complex way Lets take Chill Pill
and Understand the Issues of
Cloud Computing

Outline
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Cloud Computing
Deployment
Security Major Concern
Management level Security
General Issues

Cloud Computing
• Cloud computing providing unlimited infrastructure to store
and execute customer data and program. As customers you do
not need to own the infrastructure, they are merely accessing or
renting, they can forego capital expenditure and consume
resources as a service, paying instead for what they use.

Benefits of Cloud Computing :
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Minimized Capital expenditure
Location and Device independence
Utilization and efficiency improvement
Very high Scalability
High Computing power

Deployment Models
Private cloud: controlled and used by one
organization
Community cloud: used by several
organizations
Public cloud: available to the general public
Hybrid cloud: mixture of the above, allows
cloud bursting

Security a major Concern
• Security concerns arising because both customer data and
program are residing in Provider Premises.
• Security is always a major concern in Open System
Architectures

Customer
Data

Customer
Customer
Code
Provider Premises

Security Is the Major Challenge

Dangers and Vulnerabilities
Security is to save data and program from danger and vulnerability
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Disrupts Services.
Theft of Information.
Loss of Privacy.
Damage information.

Vulnerabilities

• Hostile Program.
• Hostile people giving instructions to good programs.
• Bad guys corrupting or eavesdropping on communications

Security at Different Levels
We need Security at following levels:
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Server access security
Internet access security
Database access security
Data privacy security

Research Questions
At a Broad level,
Two major Questions are:
• How much secure is the Data?
• How much secure is the Code?

How much safe is data from Natural
disaster?
• Data can be redundantly store in multiple
physical location.
• Physical location should be distributed across
world.

Data centre Security?
• Professional Security staff utilizing video surveillance, state of the
art intrusion detection systems, and other electronic means.
• When an employee no longer has a business need to access
datacenter his privileges to access datacenter should be immediately
revoked.
• All physical and electronic access to data centers by employees
should be logged and audited routinely.
• Audit tools so that users can easily determine how their data is
stored, protected, used, and verify policy enforcement.

Backups of Data
• Data store in database of provider should be redundantly store
in multiple physical location.
• Data that is generated during running of program on
instances is all customer data and therefore provider should
not perform backups.
• Control of Administrator on Databases.

Data Sanitization
• Sanitization is the process of removing sensitive information
from a storage device.
• What happens to data stored in a cloud computing
environment once it has passed its user’s “use by date”
• What data sanitization practices does the cloud computing
service provider propose to implement for redundant and
retiring data storage devices as and when these devices are
retired or taken out of service.

• Some virus and worm create-• Job Starvation Issue : where one job takes up a huge
amount of resource resulting in a resource starvation for
the other jobs.
• Solutions:
• Advanced reservations of resources
• priority reduction

Information Security
Security related to the information exchanged between different
hosts or between hosts and users.
 This issues pertaining to secure communication, authentication,
and issues concerning single sign on and delegation.
Secure communication issues include those security concerns that
arise during the communication between two entities.
These include confidentiality and integrity issues. Confidentiality
indicates that all data sent by users should be accessible to only
“legitimate” receivers, and integrity indicates that all data received
should only be sent/modified by “legitimate” senders.
Solution: public key encryption, X.509 certificates, and the Secure
Sockets Layer (SSL) enables secure authentication and
communication over computer networks.

We need Anti –Virus layer to help control
and protect:

• - Memory and CPU
• - Networking
• - Process execution
control
• - Storage

• Management Related Issues:
Management is important as the cloud is
heterogeneous in nature and may consist of multiple
entities, components, users, domains, policies, and
stake holders.
• Credential Management:Credential management
systems store and manage the credentials for a
variety of systems and users can access them
according to their needs.
• Secure and safe storage of credentials is equally
important.

How secure is encryption Scheme
• Is it possible for all of my data to be fully encrypted?
• What algorithms are used?
• Who holds, maintains and issues the keys?
Problem:
• Encryption accidents can make data totally unusable.
• Encryption can complicate availability
Solution
• The cloud provider should provide evidence that encryption
schemes were designed and tested by experienced specialists.

Investigative Support
• Investigating inappropriate or illegal activity may be difficult
in cloud computing because
-- logging and data for multiple customers may be co-located
-- may also be geographically spread across an ever-changing
set of hosts and data centers.
Solution: get a contractual commitment to support specific
forms of investigation, along with evidence that the vendor
has already successfully supported such activities.

How to ensure Users that both
Data and Code are safe?
Very hard for the customer to actually verify the currently
implemented security practices and initiatives of a cloud computing
service provider because the customer generally has no access to the
provider’s facility which can be comprised of multiple facilities
spread around the globe.
Solution:
Provider should get some standard certificate from some governing
or standardized institution that ensure users that provider has
established adequate internal control and these control are operating
efficiently.

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