Cloud Security Distributary Set (CSDS): A Policy-Based Framework to Define Multi-Level Security Structure in Clouds

Abstract

Security challenges are the most important obstacles for the advancement of IT-based on-demand services and cloud computing as an emerging technology. In this paper, a structural policy management engine has been introduced to enhance the reliability of managing different policies in clouds and to provide standard as well as dedicated security levels (rings) based on the capabilities of the cloud provider and the requirements of cloud customers. Cloud security ontology (CSON) is an object-oriented framework defined to manage and enable appropriate communication between the potential security terms of cloud service providers. CSON uses two super classes to establish appropriate mapping between the requirements of cloud customers and the capabilities of the service provider.