A Taxonomy Model for Single Sign-on Oriented towards Cloud Computing

Glauber C. Batista, Maurício A. Pillon, Guilherme P. Koslovski, Charles C. Miers, Marcos A. Simplício Jr., Nelson M. Gonzalez

2018

Abstract

Clouds can be seen as a natural evolution of the Internet, allowing the utilization of computing capabilities maintained by third parties for optimizing resource usage. There are several elements that compose the cloud infrastructure and its services, and all of them must operate harmoniously. In particular, to allow the creation and deployment of services resilient to internal and external threats, the observance of security aspects is essential. This includes the deployment of authentication and authorization mechanisms to control the access to resources allocated on-demand, a strong requirement for any cloud-based solution. With this issue in mind, several providers have recently started using some form of Single Sign-On (SSO) mechanism to simplify the process of handling credentials inside the cloud. In this work, aiming to provide a structured overview of the wide variety of mechanisms that can be employed with this purpose, we propose a classification of SSO systems for cloud services, which can be used as a model for comparing current and future designing instances of such mechanisms. In addition, to validate the usefulness of the proposed taxonomy, we provide a classification of existing cloud-oriented SSO solutions.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Batista G., Pillon M., Koslovski G., Miers C., Simplício Jr. M. and Gonzalez N. (2018). A Taxonomy Model for Single Sign-on Oriented towards Cloud Computing.In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-758-295-0, pages 573-581. DOI: 10.5220/0006784205730581

in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer18,
author={Glauber C. Batista and Maurício A. Pillon and Guilherme P. Koslovski and Charles C. Miers and Marcos A. Simplício Jr. and Nelson M. Gonzalez},
title={A Taxonomy Model for Single Sign-on Oriented towards Cloud Computing},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2018},
pages={573-581},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006784205730581},
isbn={978-989-758-295-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - A Taxonomy Model for Single Sign-on Oriented towards Cloud Computing
SN - 978-989-758-295-0
AU - Batista G.
AU - Pillon M.
AU - Koslovski G.
AU - Miers C.
AU - Simplício Jr. M.
AU - Gonzalez N.
PY - 2018
SP - 573
EP - 581
DO - 10.5220/0006784205730581