Automatically Enforcing Security SLAs in the Cloud

 Automatically Enforcing Security SLAs in the Cloud

 Dealing with the provisioning of Cloud services granted by Security SLAs is a very challenging research topic. At the state of the art, the main related issues involve: (i) representing security features so that it is understandable by both customers and providers and measurable (by means of verifiable security-related Service Level Objectives (SLOs)), (ii) automating the provisioning of security mechanisms able to grant desired security features (by means of a security-driven resource allocation process), and (iii) continuously monitoring the services in order to verify the fulfillment of specified Security SLOs (by means of Cloud security monitoring solutions).