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A Context-Aware Service for Authorizing Multi-cloud Deployments

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Web, Artificial Intelligence and Network Applications (WAINA 2019)

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Abstract

The most recent advancements in cloud computing, highlight the need for supporting deployments on virtualised resources bounded to the data-intensive application requirements and not limited by the strict boundaries of each available cloud provider. Towards this direction, one important challenge is the appropriate protection of the software infrastructure used for automatically performing application components deployment over multi-clouds. Specifically, we discuss the requirements and introduce a novel attribute-based access control mechanism, able to cope with potential cybersecurity threats that may compromise the deployment of multi-cloud applications. We attempt to tackle the authorization issues from two different perspectives; namely, coping with the “access control” to various platform components and the “pre-authorization” of application deployment and data placement actions using multiple cloud providers.

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Acknowledgments

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 731664. The authors would like to thank the partners of the MELODIC project (http://www.melodic.cloud/) for their valuable advices and comments.

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  1. Institute of Communications and Computer Systems, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Iroon Polytechniou Str., Athens, Greece

    Yiannis Verginadis, Ioannis Patiniotakis & Gregoris Mentzas

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

    Leonard Barolli

  2. Department of Advanced Sciences, Hosei University, Koganei-Shi, Tokyo, Japan

    Makoto Takizawa

  3. Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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  4. Faculty of Business Administration, Rissho University, Tokyo, Japan

    Tomoya Enokido

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Verginadis, Y., Patiniotakis, I., Mentzas, G. (2019). A Context-Aware Service for Authorizing Multi-cloud Deployments. In: Barolli, L., Takizawa, M., Xhafa, F., Enokido, T. (eds) Web, Artificial Intelligence and Network Applications. WAINA 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 927. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15035-8_98

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