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Furthering the Growth of Cloud Computing by Providing Privacy as a Service

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Information and Communication on Technology for the Fight against Global Warming (ICT-GLOW 2011)

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The evolution of Cloud Computing as a viable business solution for providing hardware and software has created many security concerns. Among these security concerns, privacy is often overlooked. If Cloud Computing is to continue its growth, this privacy concern will need to be addressed. In this work we discuss the current growth of Cloud Computing and the impact the public sector and privacy can have in furthering this growth. To begin to provide privacy protection for Cloud Computing, we introduce privacy constraints that outline privacy preferences. We propose the expansion of Cloud Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to include these privacy constraints as Quality of Service (QoS) levels. This privacy QoS must be agreed upon along with the rest of the QoS terms within the SLA by the Cloud consumer and provider. Finally, we introduce Privacy as a Service (PraaS) to monitor the agreement and provide enforcement if necessary.

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    David S. Allison & Miriam A. M. Capretz

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Allison, D.S., Capretz, M.A.M. (2011). Furthering the Growth of Cloud Computing by Providing Privacy as a Service. In: Kranzlmüller, D., Toja, A.M. (eds) Information and Communication on Technology for the Fight against Global Warming. ICT-GLOW 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6868. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23447-7_7

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