Security Enhancements for Cloud Applications
Security Enhancements for Cloud Applications

Author(s): Ana-Maria Dincă, Sabina-Daniela Axinte
Subject(s): Security and defense, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Asociatia Romana pentru Asigurarea Securitatii Informatiei
Keywords: cybersecurity; cloud platform security; security augmentation; security by design;
Summary/Abstract: This study scrutinizes the cloud applications infrastructure and the associated vulnerabilities that could allow unauthorized access to users’ accounts. The research is based on a Fault Tree Analysis that uncovers various security design flaws and their occurrence probabilities. For each undesirable event, a preventive mechanism is suggested and validated by the testing results, decreasing to a minimum the risk exposure of unauthorized access to users’ sensitive data.

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