End to End Cloud Computing Architecture Based on A Novel Classification of Security Issues

Abstract

Today, Cloud Computing architectures offer a cost-efficient services delivered for business, scientific and legal organizations. These structures are used as a guideline to understand the Cloud component, services, actors and interactions. However, few Cloud Computing architectures are proposed and used as references to build a Cloud infrastructure. Most of these models does not treat and burst security layers despite the fact that it presents the most important concerns in the Cloud. The aim of this paper is to propose a new end-to-end reference architecture based on a novel classification of security issues in Cloud Computing environment. To do so, we are going to explore the fundamental concepts of Cloud. We will study and propose a novel actor-based classification of security issues. We will model a Cloud reference architecture from security perspective and we will study in depth security and defense in the Cloud provider tier. We will add a management layer in order to refine our design. To the best of our knowledge, our proposal provides the first Cloud Computing reference architecture actor-based from both security and management perspectives in research field.