Vulnerability Assessment for Various Types of Cloud Structures

Abstract

Today organizations increasingly consider cloud computing as an alternative way of using information technology. At the same time, the use of different vulnerabilities of infrastructure components, network services and applications remains are the major threat to the cloud. The article proposes a methodology for vulnerability assessment for any type of cloud structures, which will allow to determine the coefficient of counter to possible attacks and to correlate the amount of damage to the total cost of ownership of organization IT-infrastructure.

Keywords

• cloud computing
• information security threats
• system vulnerability assessment
• factor counteracting