Towards a legal risk assessment

Abstract

This chapter presents an SLA brokering framework that includes innovative risk-aware assessment techniques which facilitate the clarification of database and “ownership” rights of data and evaluate the probability of SLA failure. It uses the web service agreement specification (WS-Agreement) as a template and extends prior work on risk metrics from the OPTIMIS project to facilitate SLA creation between service consumers and providers within typical cloud brokerage scenarios. However, since the WS-Agreement allows for an automated mechanism between only two parties and does not cover the use of an intermediary within the agreement process, I use the specific work carried out in the AssessGrid project that includes a brokerage mechanism and pays considerable attention to addressing a risk assessment.