Context-aware Security Models for PaaS-enabled Access Control

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2016-04
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Veloudis, Simeon
Verginadis, Yannis
Pationiotakis, Ioannis
Paraskakis, Iraklis
Mentzas, Grigoris
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Enterprises are embracing cloud computing in order to reduce costs and increase agility in their everyday business operations. Nevertheless, due mainly to confidentiality, privacy and integrity concerns, many are still reluctant to migrate their sensitive data to the cloud. In this paper, firstly, we outline the construction of a suitable Context-aware Security Model, for enhancing security in cloud applications. Secondly, we outline the construction of an extensible and declarative formalism for representing policy-related knowledge, one which disentangles the definition of a policy from the code employed for enforcing it. Both of them will be employed for supporting innovative PaaS-enabled access control mechanisms.
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Jorge Cardoso, Donald Ferguson, Víctor Méndez Muñoz, and Markus Helfert (Eds.) Proceedings 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2016) Vol. 1 and 2, Rome, Italy, April 23-25 (pp. 202–212). SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5220/0005918602020212