Towards Securing APIs in Cloud Computing
This addresses security concerns for organizations using cloud services, but appears incremental as it builds on existing access control methods.
The paper tackles the problem of securing APIs in cloud computing by proposing an improved access control mechanism, though no concrete results or numbers are provided.
Every organisation today wants to adopt cloud computing paradigm and leverage its various advantages. Today everyone is aware of its characteristics which have made it so popular and how it can help the organisations focus on their core activities leaving all IT services development and maintenance to the cloud service providers. Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) act as the interface between the CSPs and the consumers. This paper proposes an improved access control mechanism for securing the Cloud APIs.