An economical security architecture for multi-cloud application deployments in federated environments

Abstract

Contemporary multi-cloud application deployments require increasingly complex security architectures, especially within federated environments. However, increased complexity often leads to higher efforts and raised costs for managing and securing those applications. This publication establishes an economical and comprehensive security architecture that is readily instantiable, pertinent to concrete users’ requirements, and builds upon up-to-date protocols and software. We highlight its feasibility by applying the architecture within the CYCLONE innovation action, deploying federated Bioinformatics applications within a cloud production environment. At last, we put special emphasis on the reduced management efforts to highlight the economic benefit of following our approach.