ENFORCING SECURITY ON CLOUD COMPUTING NETWORK: A THEORETICAL FRAME WORK

Abstract

Cloud computing offers reduced capital expenditure, operational risks, complexity and maintenance, and increasedscalability as well as providing services at different abstraction levels, namely Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service(PaaS), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). The paper highlighted various threats in cloud computing networking,and also proffered solution by discussing extensively various security measures to be enforced on the system to achievesecurity to a large extent. This paper presents a security architecture that enables a user of cloud networking to definesecurity requirements and enforces them in the cloud networking infrastructure.Keywords: Cloud Computing, Infrastructure, Abstraction, Services, Security & Framework.