SEMINAR

ON
TRUST MANAGEMENT IN
Multi-cloud environment
DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY,

RAJKIYA ENGINEERING COLLEGE,

Ambedkar Nagar
Guided By Submitted by
Mr. Ashish Kumar Mishra Abhishek Singh Bhadauria
1473713002
1. Introduction
2. What is cloud computing?
3. Trust management issue in cloud computing.
4. Trust management architecture.
5. Trust evaluation model.
6. Types of trust in trust management architecture.
7. Objective trust.
8. Subjective trust.
9. Trust propagation network.
10. Conclusion.
 INTRODUCTION
 Nowadays the number of people that outsource their data to the cloud is
increasing rapidly.

 Cloud computing offers cost-effective dynamic, scalable and shared services for
enterprises from remote data centre.

 However, the problem of trusting cloud computing is a paramount concern for

most enterprises.
 Cloud computing is a paradigm that provides flexible and on-demand
infrastructures, platform and software as services.

 In simple terms it is on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable

computing resources .

 These resources can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal

management effort.
 Trust is widely regarded as one of the top obstacles for the adoption and growth
of cloud computing.

 In order to use cloud services, an enterprise needs to give up control of its assets
(i.e. data) to the CSP.

 Cloud computing services require cloud consumer to rely on actions of cloud

service provider, therefore, trust has become a vital component of such services.
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 It is a model proposed to solve the problem of trust management in multi-cloud

environment.

 The trust management architecture for a multi-cloud environment is based on the

trust evaluation model and the trust propagation network.
 TRUST MANAGEMENT
ARCHITECTURE

TRUST PROPAGATION
TRUST EVALUATION MODEL
NETWORK
 TRUST EVALUATION MODEL
 It is based on a group of distributed Trust Service Providers (TSPs).

 These are independent third-party providers, trusted by Cloud Providers (CPs),

Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and Cloud Service Users (CSUs), that provide
trust related services to cloud participants.

 TSPs are distributed over the clouds, and they elicit raw trust evidence from
different sources and in different formats.
 TYPES OF TRUST

SUBJECTIVE TRUST OBJECTIVE TRUST

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 TSPs evaluate the objective trust by monitoring the performance of CSPs and
verifying that the services promised by CSPs in SLA are being fulfilled.

 In order to verify the SLA, TSPs need to collect the execution data and system
log records, which are released by CSPs.
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 When the monitoring of parameters and verification of SLA is done with respect
to one CSU, the evaluated trust for the CSP is known as its LOCAL OBJECTIVE
TRUST.

 The combination of all the local objective trusts for CSP forms its global
objective trust.
 A CSU’s trust feedback on a service is a subjective evaluation of the perceived
trustworthiness of that CSP.

 A CSU tends to trust a service because of a good interaction experience,

otherwise it tends to distrust it.
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 Feedback is taken from only one cloud service user, the evaluated trust for the
CSP is known as its LOCAL SUBJECTIVE TRUST.

 The combination of all the feedbacks from different CSUs for CSP forms its
global objective trust.
 A trust propagation network of TSPs is a binary graph that can be used by a TSP
to get trust values about a CSP from other TSPs.

 Nodes of trust propagation graph graph represent individual TSPs.

 A vertex from one node to another shows that both the TSPs trust each other.
 TSP Path of trust(TPoT) is any path in the trust propagation network graph
through which trust information flows from one TSP to another.

Fig.1 TSP Path of Trust

 Assumption 1: The reliability of a received recommendation decreases as the
length of a TPoT increases.

 Assumption 2: If there is more than one TPoT from an originating TSP to a TSP
that has the information, then the shortest path TPoT is used.

 Assumption 3: If there are multiple TPoTs from the originating TSP to the target
TSP with minimum number of intermediary nodes, then one of them is randomly
selected.
Trust management architecture is an efficient method for a multi-cloud environment
to effectively evaluate the trustworthiness of CSPs using subjective and objective
trust.

TSPs can derive the LST and LOT from a single CSU’s perspective or the GST and
GOT from the whole CSUs’ aggregated perspective.

In order to share the trust information of multi-cloud services across different clouds,
a trust propagation network of TSPs is established.
 https://www.wikipedia.org/

 P. Mell and T.Grance. “The NIST definition of cloud computing,” National

Institute of Standards and Technology, 2009.

 P. I. Bhosle and S. A. Kasurkar. “Trust in Cloud Computing.”

 Fig.1 https://www.google.com/images/graphs-nodes-vertices/