Doctoral Dissertations

Amartya Sen

Keywords and Phrases

Attack Graphs; Cloud Computing; Security Risk Assessment; Sensitivity Analysis; Sensor Cloud; Variable Security Preferences

Abstract

"Cyber security is one of the primary concerns persistent across any computing platform. While addressing the apprehensions about security risks, an infinite amount of resources cannot be invested in mitigation measures since organizations operate under budgetary constraints. Therefore the task of performing security risk assessment is imperative to designing optimal mitigation measures, as it provides insight about the strengths and weaknesses of different assets affiliated to a computing platform.

The objective of the research presented in this dissertation is to improve upon existing risk assessment frameworks and guidelines associated to different key assets of Cloud computing domains - infrastructure, applications, and users. The dissertation presents various informal approaches of performing security risk assessment which will help to identify the security risks confronted by the aforementioned assets, and utilize the results to carry out the required cost-benefit tradeoff analyses. This will be beneficial to organizations by aiding them in better comprehending the security risks their assets are exposed to and thereafter secure them by designing cost-optimal mitigation measures"--Abstract, page iv.

Advisor(s)

Madria, Sanjay Kumar

Committee Member(s)

Das, Sajal K.
Jiang, Wei
Silvestri, Simone
Sarangapani, Jagannathan, 1965-

Department(s)

Computer Science

Degree Name

Ph. D. in Computer Science

Publisher

Missouri University of Science and Technology

Publication Date

Spring 2018

Journal article titles appearing in thesis/dissertation

  • Risk assessment in a sensor cloud framework using attack graphs
  • Offline risk assessment of cloud service provider
  • Sensitivity analysis of a cloud migration framework for offline risk assessment of CSPS
  • Data analysis of cloud security alliance's security, trust and assurance registry
  • Design phase risk assessment of applications using cloud security domains
  • A secure user-centric framework for service provisioning in IOT environments

Pagination

xvi, 231 pages

Note about bibliography

Includes bibliographic references.

Rights

© 2018 Amartya Sen, All rights reserved.

Document Type

Dissertation - Open Access

File Type

text

Language

English

Thesis Number

T 11724

Electronic OCLC #

1164805368

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