A Theoretical Model to Provide Security for Remote Location Aware Cloud Data Centre

Abstract

The growth in the adaptation of the cloud services for various purposes as education, research, social networking, medical research and financial managements is extending the use of cloud based services and client applications to access those services. The client applications can be deployed in various types of devices and this encourages the business scalability for the industry. Hence, the service providers enforce to the policy of allowing access from various devices and locations. These locations or devices are sometimes trusted and most of the situations are untrustworthy. The cloud based data centres face a major challenge in granting the access for these requests from the client applications. In order to satisfy the business demands, the cloud based data centre providers are forced to allow all access from those applications. Thus, making the data centre virtual infrastructure vulnerable for attacks. The data centres configure various firewall rules to prevent this condition. Nevertheless, these firewalls are static and cannot replace the need for dynamically changing business, application and customer policies with the variable location based access. Hence, the demands from the current researches are to build a dynamic firewall framework to satisfy these needs. This work demonstrates a novel theoretical framework for remote mobile clouds. Another major outcome of this work is to analyse and justify the research requirements for mobile clouds.