VAM-aaS: online cloud services security vulnerability analysis and mitigation-as-a-service
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conference contribution
posted on 2024-06-04, 06:01authored byM Almorsy, J Grundy, AS Ibrahim
Cloud computing introduces a new paradigm shift in service delivery models. However, the potential benefits reaped from the adoption of this model are threatened by public accessibility of the cloud-hosted services and sharing of resources with other service tenants. This increases the potential for exploitation of newly discovered vulnerabilities that usually take a long time to discover and to mitigate. On the other hand, existing cloud platforms do not provide a means to validate the security of offered cloud services or mitigating security vulnerabilities that arise at runtime. We introduce VAM-aaS, Vulnerability Analysis and Mitigation as-a-service, as a novel, integrated, and online cloud-based security vulnerability analysis and mitigation service. VAM-aaS performs online service analysis to pinpoint new vulnerabilities and weaknesses. It then uses this information to generate security control integration and configuration scripts to block these discovered security holes at runtime. Our approach is based on a new vulnerability signature and mitigation-actions specification approach. We introduce our approach, describe implementation details, and describe an evaluation of our prototype on a set of .NET benchmark applications.
History
Volume
7651
Pagination
411-425
Location
Paphos, Cyprus
Start date
2012-11-28
End date
2012-11-30
ISSN
0302-9743
eISSN
1611-3349
ISBN-13
9783642350627
Language
eng
Publication classification
E Conference publication, E1.1 Full written paper - refereed
Copyright notice
2012, Springer
Title of proceedings
WISE 2012 : Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering
Event
Web Information Systems Engineering. International Conference (13th : 2012 : Paphos, Cyrus)