Security pricing: A catalyst for the large scale adoption of cloud computing

Abstract

Pricing of the services, is one of the main factor in deciding the will of any organization, for the growth, In the existing Security Mechanisms of the Cloud, the way of providing Security to Cloud user is purely Provider-driven and user has no role in deciding, which security capabilities, he actually wants, based on the significance of his Cloud Instance. As a result of which, a cost inefficient Security Pricing persists in Cloud Computing. This paper focuses on exploring the pricing of existing Security mechanism and proposes a new user-driven approach, which will prove to be a cost-efficient in regard of former approach and will play a role of catalyst in large scale adoption of the Cloud Computing.

Cloud Service Insurance: An Approach to Ensure Service Quality for Consumers

“…In another work [11], several security attacks were detected and based on the frequency of such attacks on providers, pricing was done. [9] is another solution to protect the consumer's interest due to security attacks through a pricing scheme but did not consider the quality of experience by a consumer within pricing component. Data unavailability is a huge problem in cloud computing.…”