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Towards a Self-protecting Cloud
Anthony Sulistio1 and Christoph Reich2
1Dept. of Service Management & Business Processes, HPC Center Stuttgart (HLRS), Germany
sulistio@hlrs.de
2Cloud Research Lab, Hochschule Furtwangen University, Germany
rch@hs-furtwangen.de
Abstract. Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of a nation’s economy. In order to remain competitive and become a market leader in this globalization era, SMEs need to look into innovative IT solutions. One of these IT solutions is cloud computing, where it delivers Infrastructure, Platform, and Software as a Service (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) on a simple pay-per-use basis. Nevertheless, enterprises are sceptical about adopting the cloud, because of the risks involved in outsourcing services into the cloud.
To reduce the barrier for SMEs, this paper proposes a solution towards a two step service migration approach, 1) pre-defined Service-Level Agreement templates and 2) risk analyses, combined with a self-protecting cloud service that monitors, for example, the pre-defined privacy regulations and privacy protection measures.
Keywords: self-protecting, cloud, privacy
LNCS 8185, p. 395 ff.
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