Authors:
Milena Frtunic
1
;
Filip Jovanovic
1
;
Mladen Gligorijvic
1
;
Lazar Dordevic
1
;
Srecko Janicijevic
1
;
Per Håkon Meland
2
;
Karin Bernsmed
2
and
Humberto Castejon
3
Affiliations:
1
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
;
2
SINTEF ICT, Norway
;
3
Telenor Research and Future Studies, Norway
Keyword(s):
Cloud, Security, Broker, Requirements, SLAs.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Cloud Application Architectures
;
Cloud Computing
;
Cloud Computing Enabling Technology
;
Cloud Risk, Challenges, and Governance
;
Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Fundamentals
;
Languages, Tools and Architectures
;
Model-Driven Software Development
;
Monitoring of Services, Quality of Service, Service Level Agreements
;
Platforms and Applications
;
Service Composition and Mashups
;
Service Discovery
;
Service Marketing and Management
;
Service Modeling and Specification
;
Service-Oriented Architectures
;
Services Science
;
Software Engineering
;
Technology Platforms
Abstract:
The broker is foreseen to take an important role in the future Cloud ecosystem. A Cloud broker will simplify the relationships between Cloud providers and customers, by aggregating, integrating and customizing services in accordance to the customers’ needs. This paper demonstrates how security requirements can be a part of the Cloud brokering model. We present CloudSurfer, which is a prototype implementation of an independent Cloud broker that allows the customer to search for services that fulfill a set of security requirements. The application has been evaluated by representatives from the software industry and academia, and is freely available for further research.