Zheng Xuefeng

Sultan Ullah, Zheng Xuefeng, Zhou Feng et al.

Cloud computing has achieved an unbelievable adoption response rate but still its infancy stage is not over. It is an emerging paradigm and amazingly gaining popularity. The size of the market shared of the applications provided by cloud computing is still not much behind the expectations. It provides the organizations with great potential to minimize the cost and maximizes the overall operating effectiveness of computing required by an organization. Despite its growing popularity, still it is faced with security, privacy, and portability issues, which in one or the other way create hurdles in the fast acceptance of this new technology for the computing community. This paper provides a concise all around analysis of the challenges faced by cloud computing community and also presents the solutions available to these challenges.

Sultan Ullah, Zheng Xuefeng, Zhou Feng

In a cloud computing environment, access control policy is an effective means of fortification cloud users and cloud resources services against security infringements. Based on analysis of current cloud computing security characteristics, the preamble of the concept of trust, role-based access control policy, combined with the characteristics of the cloud computing environment, there are multiple security management domains, so a new cross domain framework is for access control is proposed which is based on trust. It will establish and calculate the degree of trust in the single as well as multiple domains. Role Based Access Control is used for the implementation of the access control policies in a single domain environment with the introduction of the trust concept. In multiple domains the access control will be based on the conversion of roles. On the basis of trust, and role based access control model, a new novel framework of flexible cross domain access control framework is presented. The role assignment and conversion will take place dynamically.