Research Area: Cloud Security
Recent advances have given rise to the popularity and success of cloud computing. However, when outsourcing the data and business application to a third party causes the security and privacy issues to become a critical concern. Throughout the study at hand, the authors obtain a common goal to provide a comprehensive review of the existing security and privacy issues in cloud environments. We have identified five most representative security and privacy attributes (i.e., confidentiality, integrity, availability, accountability, and privacy-preservability). Beginning with these attributes, we present the relationships among them, the vulnerabilities that may be exploited by attackers, the threat models, as well as existing defense strategies in a cloud scenario. Future research directions are previously determined for each attribute.
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Author(s) Name: Zhifeng Xiao; Yang Xiao
Journal name: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
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Publisher name: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2012.060912.00182
Volume Information: Volume: 15, Issue: 2, Second Quarter 2013, Page(s): 843 - 859
