《A New Risk Assessment Approach for Cloud Consumer》.pdfVIP

JournalofCommunicationandComputer11(2014)52-58 a Ll雹；H lN 6 A New RiskAssessmentApproachforCloudConsumer SaadiaDrissiandHicham Medromi ,4rchitectureofSystemsTeam—ENSEM,HassanIIUniversity。Casablanca8118．Morocco Received：November21，2013／Accepted：December20，2013／Published：January31，2014 Abstract：Thecloudcomputingintroducesseveralchangesintechnologythathaveresultedanewwaysforcloudproviderstodeliver theirservicestocloudconsumersmainlyinterm ofsecurityriskassessmentthus，adaptingacurrentriskassessmenttoolstocloud computingisavcrydifficulttaskdueto itssevera1characteristicsthatchallengetheeffectivenessofriskassessmentapproaches． Consequently，thereisaneedofriskassessmentapproachadaptedtocloudcomputing．Withsuchanapproach，thecloudconsumers canbeguaranteedtheeffectivenessofdatasecurityandthecloudproviderscanwinthetrustoftheircloudconsumers．ThispaFIer requirestheofrmalizationofriskassessmentmethodforconventionalsystem asfundamentalstepstowardsthcdevelopmentofflexible riskassessmentapproachregardingcloudconsumers． Keywords：Cloudcomputing，securityriskassessment，formalizationofriskassessmentmethod，cloudconsumers 1．Introduction designed specifically ofr cloud environments．In traditionalIT environments，everyoneinthebusiness Changesintechnologyhaveresultedanew waysfor hasto gototheIT departmentto obtain IT related cloud providers to deliver their services to cloud services．However，for cloud computing，the risk consumers．Thereareseveralchangesthatarelikely assessmentbecomesmorecomplex． emerged．Amongthem isthesharingofresources，the