Cloud Computing is a new computing model consists of a large pool of hardware
and software resources on remote datacenters that are accessed through the Internet.
Cloud Computing faces significant obstacles to its acceptance, such as security,
virtualization, and lack of standardization. For Cloud standards, there is a long debate
about their role, and more demands for Cloud standards are put on the table. The Cloud
standardization landscape is so ambiguous. To model and analyze security standards for
Cloud Computing and web services, we have surveyed Cloud standards focusing more on
the standards for security, and we classified them by groups of interests. Cloud
Computing leverages a number of technologies such as: Web 2.0, virtualization, and
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). SOA uses web services to facilitate the creation of
SOA systems by adopting different technologies despite their differences in formats and
protocols. Several committees such as W3C and OASIS are developing standards for web services; their standards are rather complex and verbose. We have expressed web services security standards as patterns to make it easy for designers and users to understand their key points. We have written two patterns for two web services standards; WS-Secure Conversation, and WS-Federation. This completed an earlier work we have done on web services standards. We showed relationships between web services security standards and used them to solve major Cloud security issues, such as, authorization and access control, trust, and identity management. Close to web services, we investigated Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), and we addressed security considerations in BPEL and how to enforce them. To see how Cloud vendors look at web services standards, we took Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a case-study. By reviewing AWS documentations, web services security standards are barely mentioned. We highlighted some areas where web services security standards could solve some AWS limitations, and improve AWS security process. Finally, we studied the security guidance of two major Cloud-developing organizations, CSA and NIST. Both missed the quality of attributes offered by web services security standards. We expanded their work and added benefits of adopting web services security standards in securing the Cloud. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2013.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fau.edu/oai:fau.digital.flvc.org:fau_13046 |
| Contributors | Ajaj, Ola (author), Fernandez, Eduardo B. (Thesis advisor), College of Engineering and Computer Science (Degree grantor), Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
| Publisher | Florida Atlantic University |
| Source Sets | Florida Atlantic University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation, Text |
| Format | 233 p., application/pdf |
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