Security evaluation in cloud

While creating the cloud security architecture the opportunity arises to apply IT best practices and the principles of security for a particular domain and to solve a specific set of issues related to security, measurability being one of the hardest. The article explains a measurable model for a cloud by providing a set of controls and defining metrics principles. Further this article enlists the set of tools that can be used to evaluate the security of private, public, community or hybrid cloud.