Network Traffic Auditing and Assessment in Cloud Environment

Network Traffic Auditing and Assessment in Cloud Environment 1 Mansi Goyal, 2 Richa Chhabra 1 Student, 2 Faculty ITM University, Gurgaon, Haryana, India ________________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract: Cloud computing permits users to remotely store their information into the cloud and provides ondemand applications and services from a shared pool of configurable resources. The protection of the outsourced information within the cloud is dependent on the protection of the cloud computer system and network. Though, there are varied efforts on securing data on the cloud computer system, assessment of information security on the network between cloud supplier and its user’s remains a very difficult task. The audit of the cloud computing system and network can give insights on the protection and performance of virtual machines, the OS on multiple data centres, the intra-cloud network managed by cloud providers and also the wide-area network between the cloud user and cloud supplier. Thus, network traffic assessment for cloud auditing is of vital importance so users will resort to an external audit party to verify the info security on the network between cloud provider and its users. This paper confers the following important technologies needed to research network traffic in the cloud computing domain: IP geolocation of network appliances between cloud supplier and its users, observance the data security of the cloud network path, and on-line mining of gigantic cloud auditing logs produced by cloud network traffic. _______________________________________________________________________________________