Start Date

11-8-2016

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The vital element in outsourcing data to the cloud is trust and trustworthiness that information is protected, unaltered and available on demand. To facilitate service expectations efficient and effective infra-structures are required to host the functional processes. A security process is identity management that provides authorization for access rights based on verification checks. In this paper cloud security architecture is reviewed by focusing on the issue of trust and the role of identity management design. Methodology is built to produce cloud artefacts and then it is theoretically applied to produce an innovative solution to assess cloud identity providers (CIdP). A design solution lays out an information security architecture that enhances utility for CIdPs and gives better options for users to make trust decisions in the cloud. The contribution of the research is to provide a generic methodology that may be applied to evaluate other security artefacts for the cloud environment.

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Aug 11th, 12:00 AM

Formulating Methodology to Build a Trust Framework for Cloud Identity Management

The vital element in outsourcing data to the cloud is trust and trustworthiness that information is protected, unaltered and available on demand. To facilitate service expectations efficient and effective infra-structures are required to host the functional processes. A security process is identity management that provides authorization for access rights based on verification checks. In this paper cloud security architecture is reviewed by focusing on the issue of trust and the role of identity management design. Methodology is built to produce cloud artefacts and then it is theoretically applied to produce an innovative solution to assess cloud identity providers (CIdP). A design solution lays out an information security architecture that enhances utility for CIdPs and gives better options for users to make trust decisions in the cloud. The contribution of the research is to provide a generic methodology that may be applied to evaluate other security artefacts for the cloud environment.