Cloud Computing - Security Concerns - pt1
The role of cloud in making available infrastructure, software or even business processes as a service is definitely getting mainstream.
Notwithstanding the adoption, a key concern in minds of enterprise architects and CIOs in adoption hover on the security concerns. In this series, we shall highlight some key issues surrounding the diverse security issues and shall try to invoke a debate around some of these topics to generate some serious solutions and answers.
To begin with, the notion of a web addressable interface to any of the services in the cloud brings to the forefront the question of, will the web based security attacks be also applicable to cloud?
The answer is a clear Yes. To address these concerns primarily around possibility of Denial of Service Attacks (or even DDoS) in the cloud, as web is the front end, Hence cloud providers need to enact appropriate security policies, and right access control mechanisms to minimize such possibilities.
A range of relevant distributed systems security attacks/solutions have been addressed in the recent book Distributed Systems Security: Issues, Processes and Solutions, by Wiley Press, accessible at http://www.wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9780470519882
More issues discussed in following posts..
