A Security and Performance Driven Architecture for Cloud Data Centers
This addresses security challenges for cloud data centers handling multi-tenant distributed transactional databases, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing intrusion management concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of data tampering attacks in cloud data centers by proposing a security and performance driven architecture with a novel data partitioning and placement scheme, resulting in a demonstrated trade-off between security and performance goals.
With the growing cyber-security threats, ensuring the security of data in Cloud data centers is a challenging task. A prominent type of attack on Cloud data centers is data tampering attack that can jeopardize the confidentiality and the integrity of data. In this article, we present a security and performance driven architecture for these centers that incorporates an intrusion management system for multi-tenant distributed transactional databases. The proposed architecture uses a novel data partitioning and placement scheme based on damage containment and communication cost of distributed transactions. In addition, we present a benchmarking framework for evaluating the performance of the proposed architecture. The results illustrate a trade-off between security and performance goals for Cloud data centers.