An Approach for Securing Critical Applications in Untrusted Clouds

The cloud computing has recently emerged as compelling paradigm for managing and delivery services over the internet. However, users as well as critical infrastructure operators, have legitimate concerns about the confidentiality, integrity and availability, in short the dependability, of applications and their data hosted on a third-party cloud. The dependability is become a commercial imperative for cloud providers, especially to support cloud computing for critical infrastructures. In this paper the SecureCloud project, its approach and goals are presented. SecureCloud aims to remove technical impediments to dependable cloud computing, encouraging and enabling a greater uptake of cost-effective, environment-friendly, and innovative cloud solutions, in particular, for critical infrastructure applications.