IU IncubatorCSAME
Cloud Security Assessment, Monitoring and Enforcement
Projektbeschreibung
The CSAME project aims to develop a framework for Cloud Security Assessment, Monitoring, and Enforcement. It focuses on empowering cloud customers, especially non-security experts, to effectively negotiate, monitor, and enforce security aspects in Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
Key research questions include:
How can customers express uncertain or informal security requirements?
How can SLAs be negotiated, monitored, and enforced in a transparent and automated way?
How can Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) avoid agreeing to unfeasible security guarantees?
How can customers independently detect SLA violations and enforce remedies?
The project integrates AI-driven automation, riskaware SLA monitoring, and enforcement to create a continuous and proactive cloud security lifecycle.
Dauer des Projekts
01.08.2025 – 30.07.2027
Weitere Infos
IU Incubator
IU International University (Academic Research)
A. Taha, A. Lawall, N. Suri. Cloud Security Requirement Based Threat Analy- sis; Proc. of 10th IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking, and Communications (ICNC), 2023.
A. Taha, A. Zakaria, D. Kim and N. Suri, "Decentralized Runtime Monitoring Approach Relying on the Ethereum Blockchain Infrastructure," in Proc. of 8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IC2E), 2020.
A. Taha, R. Trapero, J. Luna and N. Suri, "A framework for ranking cloud security services," in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC), 2017.
J. Luna, A. Taha, R. Trapero and N. Suri, "Quantitative reasoning about cloud security using service level agreements," IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 457-471, 2017.
S. Alboghdady, S. Winter, A. Taha, H. Zhang and N. Suri, "C'mon: Monitoring the compliance of cloud services to contracted properties," in Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, 2017.
A. Taha, P. Metzler, R. Trapero, J. Luna and N. Suri, "Identifying and utilizing dependencies across cloud security services," in Proc. of the 11th ACM on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2016.
J. Modic, R. Trapero, A. Taha, J. Luna, M. Stopar and N. Suri, "Novel efficient techniques for real-time cloud security assessment," Computers & Security, vol. 62, pp. 1-18, 2016.
A. Taha, R. Trapero, J. Luna and N. Suri, "AHP-based quantitative approach for assessing and comparing cloud security," in Proc. of 13th international conference on trust, security and privacy in computing and communications, 2014.
Prof. Dr. Ahmed Taha
Professor of Cyber Security at IU International University. Expert in cloud security, SLA enforcement, and automation. Held senior roles at SAP & PWC.
Prof. Dr. Jörn-Marc Schmidt
Professor of Cyber Security with expertise in cryptography and implementation security, previously led research at TU Graz and held senior roles at Deutsche Bank and Secunet Security Networks AG
