A Novel Framework for Ranking Cloud Service Providers Using Security Risk Approach

Cloud computing is becoming a key factor in computer science. It represents a new paradigm of utility computing and enormously growing phenomenon in the present IT industry and economy hype. The cloud users (CUs) increase and require secure, reliable and trustworthy cloud service providers (CSPs) from the market. It’s a challenge for a new customer to choose the highly secure provider. In this paper, we propose a cloud broker that analyze and rank the cloud service providers based on measuring the risks of confidentiality, integrity and availability. This model uses a CSP Rank Framework for the group of cloud providers by assessing security metrics which make decision of the more secure provider among all providers and justify the business needs in terms of security and reliability. Keywords—Cloud broker, Security Risk, Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability.