Enhancing the Security Framework Securecloud with the Swift Identity Management Framework

Abstract

SecureCloud is a comprehensive security framework for cloud computing environments consisting of different modules that handle the security and trust issues of key components. One of the modules is responsible for authentication and identity management (IDM). In SecureCloud, the author suggest, to implement the security solution for the Authentication and IDM module, it is important to ensure IDM services in the cloud can be integrated with the existing IDM framework. Existing techniques for use of pseudonyms and accommodating multiple identities to protect users' privacy can help build a desired user-centric federated IDM for clouds. Motivated by attempting to find a solution from the suggestion, this paper proposes the integration of SWIFT identity management framework into the module using the existing trust relationships in SecureCloud to enhance the security of the SecureCloud framework. SWIFT provides a set of advanced security features such as identity aggregation, privacy protection, advanced access control and single sign-on (SSO) to help enhance the security of IDM module in SecureCloud.