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On Security SLA-Based Monitoring as a Service

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Internet of Things. IoT Infrastructures (IoT360 2015)

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Client-driven monitoring of security service level agreements is not available nowadays in the market of Cloud services. Supposing that security obligations associated with a service will be available soon in the service level agreements, we designed such a monitoring service that can be deployed on Cloud provider premises or as external service. It is a stand-alone component of a larger system that allows the negotiation of service level agreements and their enforcement. The concepts, design and architecture of the proof-of-concept service are presented in this paper.

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Acknowledgments

This work is partially supported by the European Commission under grant agreement FP7-610795 (SPECS). We thank also Ciprian Crăciun for his consistent contributions to the design of the core services.

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  1. Institute e-Austria Timişoara, Timişoara, Romania

    Dana Petcu, Silviu Panica, Bogdan Irimie & Georgiana Macariu

  2. West University of Timişoara, Timişoara, Romania

    Dana Petcu, Silviu Panica & Bogdan Irimie

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Petcu, D., Panica, S., Irimie, B., Macariu, G. (2016). On Security SLA-Based Monitoring as a Service. In: Mandler, B., et al. Internet of Things. IoT Infrastructures. IoT360 2015. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 169. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47063-4_34

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