DocumentCode
2257438
Title
Multitenancy - Security Risks and Countermeasures
Author
Brown, Wayne J. ; Anderson, Vince ; Tan, Qing
Author_Institution
Athabasca Univ., Athabasca, AB, Canada
fYear
2012
fDate
26-28 Sept. 2012
Firstpage
7
Lastpage
13
Abstract
Security within the cloud is of paramount importance as the interest and indeed utilization of cloud computing increase. Multitenancy in particular introduces unique security risks to cloud computing as a result of more than one tenant utilizing the same physical computer hardware and sharing the same software and data. The purpose of this paper is to explore the specific risks in cloud computing due to Multitenancy and the measures that can be taken to mitigate those risks.
Keywords
cloud computing; risk analysis; security of data; cloud computing; countermeasures; data sharing; multitenancy model; physical computer hardware; security risks; software sharing; Cloud computing; Computational modeling; Encryption; Servers; Cloud Computing; Cloud Security; Multitenancy;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS), 2012 15th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Melbourne, VIC
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-2331-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/NBiS.2012.142
Filename
6354800
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