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This paper presents a cloud modelling language for defining essential cloud properties, enabling the modelling and reasoning about security issues in cloud environments from a requirements engineering perspective. The relationship between cloud computing and security aspects are described through a meta-model, aligning concepts from cloud computing and security requirements engineering. The central concept of the proposed approach is built around cloud services, where the propagation of relationships from a social perspective, abstract software processes and the foundational infrastructure layer are captured. The proposed concepts are applied on a running example throughout the paper to demonstrate how developers are able to capture and model cloud concepts across multiple conceptual layers, facilitating the understanding of cloud security requirements and the design of security-embedded cloud systems to realise organisational needs.
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Shei, S., Kalloniatis, C., Mouratidis, H., Delaney, A. (2016). Modelling Secure Cloud Computing Systems from a Security Requirements Perspective. In: Katsikas, S., Lambrinoudakis, C., Furnell, S. (eds) Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business. TrustBus 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9830. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44341-6_4
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