Security checklist for IaaS cloud deployments
This provides a practical tool for cloud administrators to improve security in IaaS deployments, but it is incremental as it synthesizes existing knowledge into a checklist format.
The authors tackled the problem of securing IaaS cloud deployments by creating a cloud-security checklist based on a survey of literature on cloud-threat models and security recommendations, resulting in a manageable and practically applicable list.
In this article, we provide a cloud-security checklist for IaaS cloud deployments. The elements of the checklist are established by surveying the related literature on cloud-threat models and various security recommendations. We define the elements of the list on a level of abstraction that helps keep the size of the list manageable while preserving the list's practical applicability.