SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS AS A SERVICE - Towards Security Risks Aware SLA Management

Katerina Stamou, Jean-Henry Morin, Benjamin Gateau, Jocelyn Aubert

2012

Abstract

Cloud computing has matured to become a valuable on demand alternative to traditional ownership models for the provisioning of services, platforms and infrastructure. However, this raises many issues for Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) and in particular in terms of Information Systems Security Risk Management (ISSRM). Considering such issues lack attention and knowledge, particularly for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), and that cloud computing Service Level Agreements (SLA) provide very limited support outside of basic Quality of Service (QoS) parameters, this paper argues that SLAs for cloud computing services should be more customer oriented and aware of security and risk management. A design is proposed where the SLA process, from context initialization to negotiation and agreement is decoupled from the actual cloud service provisioning and itself turned into a Service : SLA as a Service (SLAaaS). This should provide customers with much more customized and fine-grained agreements compared with the ones currently offered.

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Stamou K., Morin J., Gateau B. and Aubert J. (2012). SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS AS A SERVICE - Towards Security Risks Aware SLA Management . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CloudSecGov, (CLOSER 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-05-1, pages 663-669. DOI: 10.5220/0003966006630669


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@conference{cloudsecgov12,
author={Katerina Stamou and Jean-Henry Morin and Benjamin Gateau and Jocelyn Aubert},
title={SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS AS A SERVICE - Towards Security Risks Aware SLA Management},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CloudSecGov, (CLOSER 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={663-669},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003966006630669},
isbn={978-989-8565-05-1},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CloudSecGov, (CLOSER 2012)
TI - SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS AS A SERVICE - Towards Security Risks Aware SLA Management
SN - 978-989-8565-05-1
AU - Stamou K.
AU - Morin J.
AU - Gateau B.
AU - Aubert J.
PY - 2012
SP - 663
EP - 669
DO - 10.5220/0003966006630669