Authors:
Primož Cigoj
1
;
Borka Jerman Blažič
2
and
Tomaž Klobučar
2
Affiliations:
1
Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Jozef Stefan Institute and Laboratory for Open Systems and Networks, Slovenia
;
2
Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Keyword(s):
Single Sign-on, Identity Management, Identity Federation, Cloud Computing, Security, Cloud Management, Cloud Provisioning, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, IaaS, Multi-platform Cloud, Access Control, Authentication, Authorization, Cloud Service Provider, Privacy, Software Platform, Centralized Systems, OpenStack, VMware.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Access Control
;
Cloud Applications Performance and Monitoring
;
Cloud Computing
;
Cloud Computing Enabling Technology
;
Cloud Interoperability
;
Cloud Risk, Challenges, and Governance
;
Data Engineering
;
Databases and Data Security
;
Fundamentals
;
Information and Systems Security
;
Internet Technology
;
Platforms and Applications
;
Security, Privacy, and Compliance Management
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
The security provision within multi-platform cloud computing environment is still considered not to be properly solved due to different problems with technical and human-based origin. This paper presents an attempt to provide an authentication and authorization solution based on the single sign-on (SSO) approach for cloud service users and administrators in a multi-platform environment. The problem of authentication in cloud services is briefly introduced and the approach implemented for cloud environment with two different proprietary (VMware) and open source (OpenStack) platforms is described.