A Distributed Access Control Architecture for Cloud Computing
Abstract
The large-scale, dynamic, and heterogeneous nature of cloud computing poses numerous security challenges. But the cloud's main challenge is to provide a robust authorization mechanism that incorporates multitenancy and virtualization aspects of resources. The authors present a distributed architecture that incorporates principles from security management and software engineering and propose key requirements and a design model for the architecture.
Keywords
software engineering, distributed access control, cloud computing, multitenancy, resource virtualization
Date of this Version
3-2012
DOI
10.1109/MS.2011.153
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