Cloud computing is an evolution of information technology and a dominant business model
for delivering IT resources. With cloud computing, individuals and organizations can gain on …

Cloud service certifications (CSC) attempt to assure a high level of security and compliance.
However, considering that cloud services are part of an ever-changing environment, multi …

Trust is one of the most challenging issues in the emerging cloud computing era. Over the
past few years, numerous cloud service providers have been emerged providing similar …

Although intended to ensure cloud service providers' security, reliability, and legal
compliance, current cloud service certifications are quickly outdated. Dynamic certification …

Continuous service certification (CSC) involves the consistently gathering and assessing
certification-relevant information about cloud service operations to validate whether they …

Information security in the cloud presents a serious challenge. We have identified
fundamental weaknesses when undertaking cloud audit, namely the misconceptions …

Cloud security auditing assures the transparency and accountability of a cloud provider to its
tenants. However, the high operational complexity implied by the multi-tenancy and self …

Cloud computing is emerging as a promising IT solution for enabling ubiquitous, convenient,
and on-demand accesses to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. However …

The multi-tenancy in a cloud along with its dynamic and self-service nature could cause
severe security concerns, such as isolation breaches among cloud tenants. To mitigate such …

Cloud computing has seen a lot of interests and adoption lately. Nonetheless, the
widespread adoption of cloud is still being hindered by the lack of transparency and …