A Methodology for Assessing Security Vulnerability of Cloud Services

Cloud services continue to change the business paradigm to use computing resources such as infrastructure, platform and application using the network access. They have created new security threats and challenges. When large amounts of data are saved in the cloud, the cloud is naturally exposed to attack. In cloud services, analysis and evaluation of security vulnerability should be made with protection plans that provide the objective data and information necessary to establish measures for information protection for each business of firms and take into account the impact on their respective responsibilities. This paper presents a framework to evaluate security vulnerability that reflects the business impacts. Through this framework, it is possible to evaluate vulnerability items of cloud services. Eventually, the proposed methodology will help establish security policies for both cloud service providers and users. 1