In this paper we investigate the way cyber-criminals abuse public cloud services to host part of their malicious infrastructures, including exploit servers to distribute malware, C&C servers to manage infected terminals, redirectors to increase anonymity, and drop zones to host stolen data. We conduct a large scale analysis of all the malware samples submitted to the Anubis malware analysis sys...

With recent advancement in technology, cloud storage became cheaper enabling organizations around the world to store more data on (texts, images, videos, databases etc.), whereas it’s for a backup, archiving or just storing streams. New digital laws and regulation (eg. General Data Protection Regulation) require these change their way of processing handling data, which results usually providers...

Large number of clients like to store data onto public cloud server (PCS) due to increase in advancement in cloud computing. As a result the new security problems are in need to be solved to help large number of clients in processing their data on public cloud servers. When the clients are not allowed to access the public cloud servers, they will be forwarded to proxy servers to process their d...

Cost issue always is one of most important issue for enterprise in building their IT platform. With the advance of various cloud environments, enterprise’s IT executive may have different consideration in constructing their IT platform. For example, constructing an own cloud environment or renting a computing platform from cloud providers. This paper the authors, based on the Net Present Value ...

With dynamic trends and new developments in hardware and software, and the need to manage them efficiently, designing an Element Management System (EMS) for effective management of Network Element‟s (NE) is a challenging task. Small and medium businesses may not have the required skills or resources to manage their EMS. Large businesses may also want to use EMS services from skilled vendors. Wi...

With the proliferation of hybrid clouds in both cost-saving and effectiveness, a growing number of users are building their own private cloud. However, private cloud can only provide limited resource, and always resorts to public cloud in order to meet elastic service requirements. Generally, public cloud is operated by commercial service providers (CSPs) who are not completely honest with user...

Security of data is one of the main concern in the implementation of cloud computing. This paper proposes a highly effective and efficient cloud security model. The proposed security model keeps the most critical data on the private cloud and the rest of it on the public cloud. It uses hash codes to check the integrity of the data at the public cloud. The proposed cloud security model provides ...

Cloud users today have little visibility into the performance characteristics, power consumption, and utilization of cloud resources; and the cloud has little visibility into user application performance requirements and critical metrics such as response time and throughput. This paper outlines new efforts to reduce the information gap between the cloud users and the cloud. We first present a s...

Cloud computing is next generation era of IT enterprise, which provide services like resource pooling, on demand and metered service. It provides the burden free environment for the consumer, to get rid of resource management. It also shifts all digital assets (data and application) to the centralized large datacentre. These datacentre can be onpremise or off-premise cloud service provider, dep...