High Assurance Challenges for Cloud Based Computing

Cloud computing is emerging as an attractive, cost effective computing paradigm. However, many of the applications require high assurance, attribution and formal access control processes including defense, banking, credit, content distribution, etc. Current implementations of cloud services do not meet high assurance requirements. The high assurance requirement presents many challenges to normal computing and some rather precise requirements that have developed from high assurance issues for web service applications. The challenges of high assurance associated with cloud computing are primarily in four areas.