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Analysis of Protection Options for Virtualized Infrastructures in Infrastructure as a Service Cloud

Authors:
Ramaswamy Chandramouli

Keywords: Virtualization; Cloud Infrastructure; Virtual Machine; Virtual Network; Infrastructure as a Service

Abstract:
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is one of the three main cloud service types where the cloud consumer consumes a great variety of resources, such as computing (Virtual Machines or VMs), virtual network, storage and utility programs (DBMS). Any large-scale offering of this service is feasible only through a virtualized infrastructure at the service provider. At the minimum, this infrastructure is made up of resources such as Virtualized hosts together with associated virtual network and hardware/software for data storage An IaaS’s consumer’s total set of interactions with these resources constitutes the set of use cases for IaaS cloud service. These use cases have associated security requirements and these requirements are met by protection options enabled by available security solutions/technologies. The contribution of this paper is to analyze these protection options. The outcome of this analysis is a realistic characterization of the features, security strengths & architectural foundations of these protection options that will enable an IaaS consumer to choose the appropriate set of security solutions depending upon its deployment context.

Pages: 37 to 43

Copyright: Copyright (c) The Government of USA, 2014. Used by permission to IARIA.

Publication date: May 25, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4294

ISBN: 978-1-61208-338-4

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from May 25, 2014 to May 29, 2014