Context: Software has become more complicated, dynamic, and asynchronous than ever,
making testing more challenging. With the increasing interest in the development of cloud …

Assessing security of software services on Cloud is complex because the security depends
on the vulnerability of infrastructure, platform and the software services. In many systems, the …

With the rapid growth of virtualization-based computing technologies, the demand of better
security for virtualization is increased. For cloud IaaS providers, it is important to offer …

The emerging trends of cloud computing and its vulnerability causes severe security
risks/concerns on its users. In order to cope with these possible risks, appropriate …

This chapter explores two related challenges in the context of secure processing in cloud
computing. The first is the concern of “loss of control” that results from outsourcing data and …

Cloud Computing is a technology which provides us a convenient way of an on-demand
network-based access to available shared pools of pre configurable system resources and …

Over the past decade, there has been a major shift towards the globalization of the software
industry, by allowing code to be shared and reused across project boundaries. This global …

Among the various applications of high performance computing, security of cloud computing
is very essential and greater awareness in India. Security issues in cloud are very …

Cloud-based software services have become more popular and dependable and are ideal
for businesses with growing or changing workload demands. These services are increasing …

In this paper, we design an automated framework for vulnerability assessment of virtual
machines in cloud computing. It uses multithread model to scan newly joined VMs for …