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Lookup NU author(s): Dr John Mace, Professor Aad van Moorsel, Professor Paul WatsonORCiD
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Many enterprises are currently exploring the potential cost benefits of running applications in public clouds. Enterprises often have global security policies to ensure that its information management conforms to business rules and legal mandates. The location of data storage and application execution therefore becomes a critical issue. The prevalence of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) means that applications are often composed from a set of services which form a workflow. The concept of running workflow instances on public cloud processing platforms is in its infancy. The scientific community still needs to define the security issues in public cloud workflow deployment and the requirements of possible solutions that will deal with those concerns. This paper aims to address this by exploring the current information security issues of public cloud workflow deployment within an enterprise setting and by identifying core requirements of solutions needed to deal with these challenges. We argue that enterprises would benefit from an automated and dynamic approach when selecting where to execute workflows and store data. This approach would choose what workflows, or subsets of workflows, can be executed in a public cloud environment while ensuring that enterprise security and compliance needs are met.
Author(s): Mace JC, van Moorsel A, Watson P
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title: School of Computing Science Technical Report Series
Year: 2011
Pages: 9
Print publication date: 01/05/2011
Source Publication Date: May 2011
Report Number: 1246
Institution: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne
