Frameworks to Develop SLA Based Security Metrics in Cloud Environment

Cloud computing, the growing technology which most of the small as well as large organizations adopt to maintain IT as it is a very cost effective organization should consider the business risk associated with cloud computing all of which are still not resolved. The risk can be categorized in several issues like privacy, security, legal risks. To solve these types of severe risks, organization might make and develop SLA for the establishment of an agreement between the customer and the cloud providers. This chapter provides a survey on the various frameworks to develop SLA based security metrics. Various security attributes and possible threats are having also been discussed in this chapter.