Research in Cloud Security and Privacy

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Bharat Bhargava bbshail@purdue.edu

Computer Science Purdue University

Research in Cloud Security and Privacy

YounSun Cho cho52@cs.purdue.edu Computer Science Purdue University Anya Kim anya.kim@nrl.navy.mil Naval Research Lab

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Talk Objectives

• A high-level discussion of the fundamental challenges and A high-level discussion of the fundamental challenges and issues/characteristics

issues/characteristics of cloud computingof cloud computing

• Identify a few security and privacy issues within this frameworkIdentify a few security and privacy issues within this framework

• Propose some approaches to addressing these issues_{Propose some approaches to addressing these issues}

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Outline

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Part I: Introduction

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Part II: Security and Privacy Issues in Cloud Computing

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Part III: Possible Solutions

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Part I. Introduction

• Cloud Computing BackgroundCloud Computing Background

• Cloud Models_{Cloud Models}

• Why do you still hesitate to use cloud computing?Why do you still hesitate to use cloud computing?

• Causes of Problems Associated with Cloud Computing_{Causes of Problems Associated with Cloud Computing} • Taxonomy of Fear_{Taxonomy of Fear}

• Threat Model_{Threat Model}

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Cloud Computing Background

• _Features_Features

– _{Use of internet-based services to support business process} – Rent IT-services on a utility-like basis

• _Attributes_Attributes

– _{Rapid deployment}

– Low startup costs/ capital investments – _{Costs based on usage or subscription}

– Multi-tenant sharing of services/ resources

• _{Essential characteristics}_{Essential characteristics}

– _{On demand self-service} – Ubiquitous network access

– _{Location independent resource pooling} – Rapid elasticity

– _{Measured service}

• “_“Cloud computing is a compilation of existing techniques and Cloud computing is a compilation of existing techniques and

technologies, packaged within a new infrastructure paradigm that offers

technologies, packaged within a new infrastructure paradigm that offers

improved scalability, elasticity, business agility, faster startup time,

reduced management costs, and just-in-time availability of resources”

reduced management costs, and just-in-time availability of resources”

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A Massive Concentration of Resources

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Also a massive concentration of risk

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expected loss from a single breach can be significantly

larger

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concentration of “users” represents a concentration of

threats

•

“Ultimately, you can outsource responsibility but you can’t

“

Ultimately, you can outsource responsibility but you can’t

outsource accountability.”

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Cloud Computing: who should use it?

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Cloud computing definitely makes sense if your own

security is weak, missing features, or below average.

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Ultimately, if

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the cloud provider’s security people are “better” than

yours (and leveraged at least as efficiently),

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the web-services interfaces don’t introduce too many

new vulnerabilities, and

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the cloud provider aims at least as high as you do, at

security goals,

then cloud computing has better security.

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Cloud Models

• Delivery Models_{Delivery Models}

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SaaS

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PaaS

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IaaS

• Deployment Models_{Deployment Models}

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Private cloud

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Community cloud

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Public cloud

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Hybrid cloud

• We propose one more Model: Management Models (trust and tenancy _{We propose one more Model: Management Models (trust and tenancy}

issues)

issues)

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Self-managed

–

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rd

party managed (e.g. public clouds and VPC)

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Delivery Models

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While cloud-based software services are maturing,

Cloud platform and infrastructure offering are still in their early stages !

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Impact of cloud computing on the governance

structure of IT organizations

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If cloud computing is so great,

why isn’t everyone doing it?

• The cloud acts as a big black box, nothing inside the cloud is visible The cloud acts as a big black box, nothing inside the cloud is visible to the clients

to the clients

• Clients have no idea or control over what happens inside a cloudClients have no idea or control over what happens inside a cloud

• Even if the cloud provider is honest, it can have malicious system _{Even if the cloud provider is honest, it can have malicious system}

admins who can tamper with the VMs and violate confidentiality and

integrity

integrity

• Clouds are still subject to traditional data confidentiality, integrity, _{Clouds are still subject to traditional data confidentiality, integrity,}

availability, and privacy issues, plus some additional attacks

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Companies are still afraid to use clouds

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Causes of Problems Associated

with Cloud Computing

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Most security problems stem from:

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Loss of control

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Lack of trust (mechanisms)

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Multi-tenancy

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These problems exist mainly in 3

rdrd

party

management models

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Self-managed clouds still have security issues, but not

related to above

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Loss of Control in the Cloud

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Consumer’s loss of control

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Data, applications, resources are located with provider

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User identity management is handled by the cloud

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User access control rules, security policies and

enforcement are managed by the cloud provider

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Consumer relies on provider to ensure

• _{Data security and privacy} • Resource availability

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Lack of Trust in the Cloud

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A brief deviation from the talk

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(But still related)

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Trusting a third party requires taking risks

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Defining trust and risk

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Opposite sides of the same coin (J. Camp)

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People only trust when it pays (Economist’s view)

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Need for trust arises only in risky situations

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Defunct third party management schemes

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Hard to balance trust and risk

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e.g. Key Escrow (Clipper chip)

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Multi-tenancy Issues in the Cloud

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Conflict between tenants’ opposing goals

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Tenants share a pool of resources and have opposing goals

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How does multi-tenancy deal with conflict of interest?

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Can tenants get along together and ‘play nicely’ ?

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If they can’t, can we isolate them?

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How to provide separation between tenants?

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Cloud Computing brings new threats

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Multiple independent users share the same physical

infrastructure

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Thus an attacker can legitimately be in the same physical

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Taxonomy of Fear

• Confidentiality_{Confidentiality}

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Fear of loss of control over data

• _{Will the sensitive data stored on a cloud remain confidential?} • _{Will cloud compromises leak confidential client data}

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Will the cloud provider itself be honest and won’t peek

into the data?

• Integrity_Integrity

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How do I know that the cloud provider is doing the

computations correctly?

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How do I ensure that the cloud provider really stored

my data without tampering with it?

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Taxonomy of Fear (cont.)

• AvailabilityAvailability

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Will critical systems go down at the client, if the

provider is attacked in a Denial of Service attack?

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What happens if cloud provider goes out of business?

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Would cloud scale well-enough?

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Often-voiced concern

• _{Although cloud providers argue their downtime compares well with}

cloud user’s own data centers

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• Privacy issues raised via massive data miningPrivacy issues raised via massive data mining

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Cloud now stores data from a lot of clients, and can run

data mining algorithms to get large amounts of

information on clients

• Increased_Increased attack surfaceattack surface

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Entity outside the organization now stores and

computes data, and so

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Attackers can now target the communication link

between cloud provider and client

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Cloud provider employees can be phished

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• Auditability and forensics (out of control of data)Auditability and forensics (out of control of data)

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Difficult to audit data held outside organization in a

cloud

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Forensics also made difficult since now clients don’t

maintain data locally

• Legal quagmire and transitive trust issues_{Legal quagmire and transitive trust issues}

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Who is responsible for complying with regulations?

• e.g., SOX, HIPAA, GLBA ?

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If cloud provider subcontracts to third party clouds,

will the data still be secure?

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Cloud Computing is a security nightmare and it can't be handled in traditional ways. John Chambers

CISCO CEO

• Security is one of the most difficult task to implement in cloud computing. Security is one of the most difficult task to implement in cloud computing.

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Different forms of attacks in the application side and in

the hardware components

• Attacks with catastrophic effects only needs one security flaw Attacks with catastrophic effects only needs one security flaw

(http://www.exforsys.com/tutorials/cloud-computing/cloud-computing-security.html) (http://www.exforsys.com/tutorials/cloud-computing/cloud-computing-security.html)

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Threat Model

• A threat model helps in analyzing a security problem, design mitigation A threat model helps in analyzing a security problem, design mitigation strategies, and evaluate solutions

strategies, and evaluate solutions •Steps:Steps:

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Identify attackers, assets, threats and other

components

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Rank the threats

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Choose mitigation strategies

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Build solutions based on the strategies

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Threat Model

• Basic components Basic components

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Attacker modeling

• _{Choose what attacker to consider}

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insider vs. outsider?

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single vs. collaborator?

• _{Attacker motivation and capabilities}

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Attacker goals

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Vulnerabilities / threats

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What is the issue?

• The core issue here is the levels of trust The core issue here is the levels of trust

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Many cloud computing providers trust their customers

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Each customer is physically commingling its data with

data from anybody else using the cloud while logically

and virtually you have your own space

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The way that the cloud provider implements security is

typically focused on they fact that those outside of

their cloud are evil, and those inside are good.

• But what if those inside are also evil?_{But what if those inside are also evil?}

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Attacker Capability: Malicious Insiders

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At client

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Learn passwords/authentication information

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Gain control of the VMs

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At cloud provider

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Log client communication

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Can read unencrypted data

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Can possibly peek into VMs, or make copies of VMs

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Can monitor network communication, application

patterns

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Why?

• _{Gain information about client data} • Gain information on client behavior • _{Sell the information or use itself}

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Attacker Capability: Outside attacker

• What?What?

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Listen to network traffic (passive)

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Insert malicious traffic (active)

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Probe cloud structure (active)

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Launch DoS

• Goal?_Goal?

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Intrusion

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Network analysis

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Man in the middle

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Cartography

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Challenges for the attacker

• How to find out where the target is located?How to find out where the target is located?

• How to be co-located with the target in the same (physical) machine?_{How to be co-located with the target in the same (physical) machine?} • How to gather information about the target?How to gather information about the target?

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Part II: Security and Privacy Issues

in Cloud Computing - Big Picture

• Infrastructure SecurityInfrastructure Security

• Data Security and Storage_{Data Security and Storage}

• Identity and Access Management (IAM)Identity and Access Management (IAM)

• Privacy_Privacy

• And more…_{And more…}

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Infrastructure Security

• Network LevelNetwork Level

• Host Level_{Host Level}

• Application LevelApplication Level

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The Network Level

• Ensuring confidentiality and integrity of your organization’s data-in-_{Ensuring confidentiality and integrity of your organization’s}

data-in-transit to and from your public cloud provider

transit to and from your public cloud provider

• Ensuring proper access control (authentication, authorization, and _{Ensuring proper access control (authentication, authorization, and}

auditing) to whatever resources you are using at your public cloud

provider

provider

• Ensuring availability of the Internet-facing resources in a public cloud Ensuring availability of the Internet-facing resources in a public cloud that are being used by your organization, or have been assigned to

that are being used by your organization, or have been assigned to

your organization by your public cloud providers

your organization by your public cloud providers

• Replacing the established model of network zones and tiers with Replacing the established model of network zones and tiers with domains

domains

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The Network Level - Mitigation

• Note that network-level risks exist regardless of what aspects of Note that network-level risks exist regardless of what aspects of “cloud computing” services are being used

“cloud computing” services are being used

• The primary determination of risk level is therefore not which *aaS is The primary determination of risk level is therefore not which *aaS is being used,

being used,

• But rather whether your organization intends to use or is using a _{But rather whether your organization intends to use or is using a}

public, private, or hybrid cloud.

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The Host Level

• SaaS/PaaSSaaS/PaaS

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Both the PaaS and SaaS platforms abstract and hide

the host OS from end users

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Host security responsibilities are transferred to the

CSP (Cloud Service Provider)

• You do not have to worry about protecting hosts

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However, as a customer, you still own the risk of

managing information hosted in the cloud services.

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The Host Level (cont.)

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IaaS Host Security

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Virtualization Software Security

• Hypervisor (also called Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)) security is

a key

– _{a small application that runs on top of the physical machine}

H/W layer

– _{implements and manages the virtual CPU, virtual memory, event}

channels, and memory shared by the resident VMs

– _{Also controls I/O and memory access to devices.} • _{Bigger problem in multitenant architectures}

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Customer guest OS or Virtual Server Security

• The virtual instance of an OS

• Vulnerabilities have appeared in virtual instance of an OS

• e.g., VMWare, Xen, and Microsoft’s Virtual PC and Virtual Server • Customers have full access to virtual servers.

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Case study: Amazon's EC2 infrastructure

• “_“Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud: Exploring Information Leakage in Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud: Exploring Information Leakage in Third-Party Compute Clouds”

Third-Party Compute Clouds”

– Multiple VMs of different organizations with virtual boundaries separating each VM can run within one physical server

– "virtual machines" still have internet protocol, or IP, addresses, visible to anyone within the cloud.

– VMs located on the same physical server tend to have IP

addresses that are close to each other and are assigned at the same time

– An attacker can set up lots of his own virtual machines, look at their IP addresses, and figure out which one shares the same physical resources as an intended target

– _{Once the malicious virtual machine is placed on the same server} as its target, it is possible to carefully monitor how access to resources fluctuates and thereby potentially glean sensitive information about the victim

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Local Host Security

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Are local host machines part of the cloud infrastructure?

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Outside the security perimeter

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While cloud consumers worry about the security on the cloud

provider’s site, they may easily forget to harden their own

machines

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The lack of security of local devices can

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Provide a way for malicious services on the cloud to attack

local networks through these terminal devices

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Local Host Security (Cont.)

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With mobile devices, the threat may be even stronger

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Users misplace or have the device stolen from them

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Security mechanisms on handheld gadgets are often times

insufficient compared to say, a desktop computer

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Provides a potential attacker an easy avenue into a cloud

system.

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If a user relies mainly on a mobile device to access cloud data,

the threat to availability is also increased as mobile devices

malfunction or are lost

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Devices that access the cloud should have

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Strong authentication mechanisms

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Tamper-resistant mechanisms

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Strong isolation between applications

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Methods to trust the OS

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Cryptographic functionality when traffic confidentiality is

required

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The Application Level

• DoSDoS

• EDoS(Economic Denial of Sustainability)_{EDoS(Economic Denial of Sustainability)}

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An attack against the billing model that underlies the

cost of providing a service with the goal of bankrupting

the service itself.

• End user security_{End user security}

• Who is responsible for Web application security in the cloud?_{Who is responsible for Web application security in the cloud?} • SaaS/PaaS/IaaS application security_{SaaS/PaaS/IaaS application security}

• Customer-deployed application security_{Customer-deployed application security}

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Data Security and Storage

• Several aspects of data security, including:_{Several aspects of data security, including:}

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Data-in-transit

• _{Confidentiality + integrity using secured protocol}

• _{Confidentiality with non-secured protocol and encryption}

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Data-at-rest

• _{Generally, not encrypted , since data is commingled with other}

users’ data

• _{Encryption if it is not associated with applications?}

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But how about indexing and searching?

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Then homomorphic encryption vs. predicate

encryption?

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Processing of data, including multitenancy

• _{For any application to process data, not encrypted}

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Data Security and Storage (cont.)

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Data lineage

• _{Knowing when and where the data was located w/i cloud is important}

for audit/compliance purposes

• _{e.g., Amazon AWS}

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Store

<d1, t1, ex1.s3.amazonaws.com>

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Process <d2, t2, ec2.compute2.amazonaws.com>

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Restore <d3, t3, ex2.s3.amazonaws.com>

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Data provenance

• _{Computational accuracy (as well as data integrity)}

• E.g., financial calculation: sum ((((2*3)*4)/6) -2) = $2.00 ?

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Correct : assuming US dollar

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How about dollars of different countries?

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Correct exchange rate?

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What was the state of that physical system?

How would a customer or auditor verify that info?

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Data Security and Storage

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Data remanence

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Inadvertent disclosure of sensitive information is possible

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Data security mitigation?

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Do not place any sensitive data in a public cloud

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Encrypted data is placed into the cloud?

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Provider data and its security: storage

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To the extent that quantities of data from many

companies are centralized, this collection can become an

attractive target for criminals

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Moreover, the physical security of the data center and the

trustworthiness of system administrators take on new

importance.

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Why IAM?

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Organization’s trust boundary will become dynamic and will

move beyond the control and will extend into the service

provider domain.

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Managing access for diverse user populations (employees,

contractors, partners, etc.)

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Increased demand for authentication

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personal, financial, medical data will now be hosted in the

cloud

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S/W applications hosted in the cloud requires access control

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Need for higher-assurance authentication

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authentication in the cloud may mean authentication outside

F/W

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Limits of password authentication

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Need for authentication from mobile devices

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IAM considerations

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The strength of authentication system should be

reasonably balanced with the need to protect the privacy

of the users of the system

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The system should allow strong claims to be

transmitted and verified w/o revealing more

information than is necessary for any given transaction

or connection within the service

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Case Study: S3 outage

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authentication service overload leading to unavailability

• 2 hours 2/15/08

• http://www.centernetworks.com/amazon-s3-downtime-update

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What is Privacy?

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The concept of privacy varies widely among (and

sometimes within) countries, cultures, and jurisdictions.

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It is shaped by public expectations and legal

interpretations; as such, a concise definition is elusive if

not impossible.

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Privacy rights or obligations are related to the collection,

use, disclosure, storage, and destruction of personal data

(or Personally Identifiable Information—PII).

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At the end of the day, privacy is about the accountability

of organizations to data subjects, as well as the

transparency to an organization’s practice around

personal information.

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What is the data life cycle?

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• _{Personal information should be}

managed as part of the data used by the organization

• Protection of personal information

should consider the impact of the cloud on each phase

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What Are the Key Privacy Concerns?

• Typically mix security and privacyTypically mix security and privacy

• Some considerations to be aware of:_{Some considerations to be aware of:}

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Storage

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Retention

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Destruction

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Auditing, monitoring and risk management

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Privacy breaches

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Who is responsible for protecting privacy?

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Storage

• Is it commingled with information from other organizations that use Is it commingled with information from other organizations that use the same CSP?

the same CSP?

• The aggregation of data raises new privacy issuesThe aggregation of data raises new privacy issues

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Some governments may decide to search through data

without necessarily notifying the data owner, depending

on where the data resides

• Whether the cloud provider itself has any right to see and access _{Whether the cloud provider itself has any right to see and access}

customer data?

customer data?

• Some services today track user behaviour for a range of purposes, _{Some services today track user behaviour for a range of purposes,}

from sending targeted advertising to improving services

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Retention

• How long is personal information (that is transferred to the cloud) How long is personal information (that is transferred to the cloud) retained?

retained?

• Which retention policy governs the data? Which retention policy governs the data?

• Does the organization own the data, or the CSP? _{Does the organization own the data, or the CSP?}

• Who enforces the retention policy in the cloud, and how are _{Who enforces the retention policy in the cloud, and how are}

exceptions to this policy (such as litigation holds) managed?

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Destruction

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How does the cloud provider destroy PII at the end of the

retention period?

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How do organizations ensure that their PII is destroyed by

the CSP at the right point and is not available to other cloud

users?

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Cloud storage providers usually replicate the data across

multiple systems and sites—increased availability is one of

the benefits they provide.

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How do you know that the CSP didn’t retain additional

copies?

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Did the CSP really destroy the data, or just make it

inaccessible to the organization?

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Is the CSP keeping the information longer than necessary

so that it can mine the data for its own use?

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Auditing, monitoring and risk management

• How can organizations monitor their CSP and provide assurance to _{How can organizations monitor their CSP and provide assurance to}

relevant stakeholders that privacy requirements are met when their PII

relevant stakeholders that privacy requirements are met when their PII

is in the cloud?

• Are they regularly audited? _{Are they regularly audited?}

• What happens in the event of an incident?_{What happens in the event of an incident?}

• If business-critical processes are migrated to a cloud computing If business-critical processes are migrated to a cloud computing model, internal security processes need to evolve to allow multiple

model, internal security processes need to evolve to allow multiple

cloud providers to participate in those processes, as needed.

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These include processes such as security monitoring,

auditing, forensics, incident response, and business

continuity

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Privacy breaches

• How do you know that a breach has occurred?How do you know that a breach has occurred?

• How do you ensure that the CSP notifies you when a breach occurs?_{How do you ensure that the CSP notifies you when a breach occurs?} • Who is responsible for managing the breach notification process (and Who is responsible for managing the breach notification process (and

costs associated with the process)?

costs associated with the process)?

• If contracts include liability for breaches resulting from negligence of _{If contracts include liability for breaches resulting from negligence of}

the CSP?

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How is the contract enforced?

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How is it determined who is at fault?

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Who is responsible for protecting privacy?

• Data breaches have a cascading effect_{Data breaches have a cascading effect}

• Full reliance on a third party to protect personal data?Full reliance on a third party to protect personal data?

• In-depth understanding of responsible data stewardship_{In-depth understanding of responsible data stewardship} • Organizations can transfer liability, but not accountability_{Organizations can transfer liability, but not accountability}

• Risk assessment and mitigation throughout the data life cycle is _{Risk assessment and mitigation throughout the data life cycle is}

critical.

critical.

• Many new risks and unknowns_{Many new risks and unknowns}

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The overall complexity of privacy protection in the

cloud represents a bigger challenge.

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Company X.

Assume that the compromised server also contained data from Companies Y and Z.

• Who investigates this crime?

• Is it the Cloud Provider, even though Company X may fear that the provider will try to absolve itself from responsibility?

• Is it Company X and, if so, does it have the right to see other data on that server,

including logs that may show access to the data of Companies Y and Z?

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Part III. Possible Solutions

• Minimize Lack of TrustMinimize Lack of Trust

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Policy Language

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Certification

• Minimize Loss of Control Minimize Loss of Control

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Monitoring

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Utilizing different clouds

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Access control management

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Identity Management (IDM)

• Minimize Multi-tenancyMinimize Multi-tenancy

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Security Issues in the Cloud

• In theory, minimizing any of the issues would help:_{In theory, minimizing any of the issues would help:}

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Third Party Cloud Computing

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Loss of Control

• Take back control

– _{Data and apps may still need to be on the cloud}

– _{But can they be managed in some way by the consumer?}

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Lack of trust

• _{Increase trust (mechanisms)} – _Technology

– _{Policy, regulation}

– _{Contracts (incentives): topic of a future talk}

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Multi-tenancy

• Private cloud

– _{Takes away the reasons to use a cloud in the first place} • VPC: its still not a separate system

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Like Amazon’s EC2, Microsoft’s Azure

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Allow users to instantiate Virtual Machines

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Allow users to purchase required quantity

when required

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Allow service providers to maximize the

utilization of sunk capital costs

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Confidentiality is very important

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• Confidentiality issues_{Confidentiality issues}

• Malicious behavior by cloud provider Malicious behavior by cloud provider

• Known risks exist in any industry practicing outsourcing_{Known risks exist in any industry practicing outsourcing} • Provider and its infrastructure needs to be trusted_{Provider and its infrastructure needs to be trusted}

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Threats arise from other consumers

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Due to the subtleties of how physical resources

can be transparently shared between VMs

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Such attacks are based on placement and

extraction

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A customer VM and its adversary can be

assigned to the same physical server

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Adversary can penetrate the VM and violate

customer confidentiality

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•

Collaborative attacks

•

Mapping of internal cloud infrastructure

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Identifying likely residence of a target VM

•

Instantiating new VMs until one gets co-

Instantiating new VMs until one gets

co-resident with the target

resident with the target

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Cross-VM side-channel attacks

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Extract information from target VM on the

same machine

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• Can one determine where in the cloud infrastructure an instance is Can one determine where in the cloud infrastructure an instance is located?

located?

• Can one easily determine if two instances are co-resident on the same Can one easily determine if two instances are co-resident on the same physical machine?

physical machine?

• Can an adversary launch instances that will be co-resident with other _{Can an adversary launch instances that will be co-resident with other}

user instances?

• Can an adversary exploit cross-VM information leakage once co-_{Can an adversary exploit cross-VM information leakage once}

co-resident?

resident?

Answer: Yes to all

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- POLICY LANGUAGE

- CERTIFICATION

Minimize Lack of Trust

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Minimize Lack of Trust:

Policy Language

• Consumers have specific security needs but don’t have a say-so in _{Consumers have specific security needs but don’t have a say-so in}

how they are handled

how they are handled

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What the heck is the provider doing for me?

–

Currently consumers cannot dictate their requirements

to the provider (SLAs are one-sided)

• Standard language to convey one’s policies and expectations_{Standard language to convey one’s policies and expectations}

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Agreed upon and upheld by both parties

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Standard language for representing SLAs

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Can be used in a intra-cloud environment to realize

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Minimize Lack of Trust:

Policy Language (Cont.)

• Create policy language with the following characteristics: _{Create policy language with the following characteristics:}

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Machine-understandable (or at least processable),

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Easy to combine/merge and compare

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Examples of policy statements are, “requires isolation

between VMs”, “requires geographical isolation between

VMs”, “requires physical separation between other

communities/tenants that are in the same industry,”

etc.

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Need a validation tool to check that the policy created

in the standard language correctly reflects the policy

creator’s intentions (i.e. that the policy language is

semantically equivalent to the user’s intentions).

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Minimize Lack of Trust: Certification

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Certification

–

Some form of reputable, independent, comparable

assessment and description of security features and

assurance

–

Sarbanes-Oxley, DIACAP, DISTCAP, etc (are they

sufficient for a cloud environment?)

•

Risk assessment

–

Performed by certified third parties

(63)

- MONITORING

- UTILIZING DIFFERENT CLOUDS

- ACCESS CONTROL MANAGEMENT

- IDENTITY MANAGEMENT (IDM)

Minimize Loss of Control

(64)

Minimize Loss of Control:

Monitoring

• Cloud consumer needs situational awareness for critical applications_{Cloud consumer needs situational awareness for critical applications}

–

When underlying components fail, what is the effect of

the failure to the mission logic

–

What recovery measures can be taken (by provider and

consumer)

• Requires an application-specific run-time monitoring and management _{Requires an application-specific run-time monitoring and management}

tool for the consumer

tool for the consumer

–

The cloud consumer and cloud provider have different

views of the system

–

Enable both the provider and tenants to monitor the

(65)

Monitoring (Cont.)

65

–

Provide mechanisms that enable the provider to

act on attacks he can handle.

•

infrastructure remapping (create new or move

existing fault domains)

•

shutting down offending components or targets

(and assisting tenants with porting if necessary

•

Repairs

–

Provide mechanisms that enable the consumer to

act on attacks that he can handle (application-level

monitoring).

•

RAdAC (Risk-adaptable Access Control)

•

VM porting with remote attestation of target

physical host

•

Provide ability to move the user’s application to

another cloud

(66)

Utilize Different Clouds

• The concept of ‘Don’t put all your eggs in one basket’_{The concept of ‘Don’t put all your eggs in one basket’}

–

Consumer may use services from different clouds through an

intra-cloud or multi-cloud architecture

–

Propose a multi-cloud or intra-cloud architecture in which

consumers

• Spread the risk

• _{Increase redundancy (per-task or per-application)}

• _{Increase chance of mission completion for critical applications}

–

Possible issues to consider:

• _{Policy incompatibility (combined, what is the overarching policy?)} • Data dependency between clouds

• Differing data semantics across clouds

• _{Knowing when to utilize the redundancy feature (monitoring}

technology)

• _{Is it worth it to spread your sensitive data across multiple clouds?}

(67)

Access Control

• Many possible layers of access control_{Many possible layers of access control}

–

E.g. access to the cloud, access to servers, access to

services, access to databases (direct and queries via web

services), access to VMs, and access to objects within a VM

–

Depending on the deployment model used, some of these will

be controlled by the provider and others by the consumer

• Regardless of deployment model, provider needs to manage the user _{Regardless of deployment model, provider needs to manage the user}

authentication and access control procedures (to the cloud)

authentication and access control procedures (to the cloud)

–

Federated Identity Management: access control management

burden still lies with the provider

–

Requires user to place a large amount of trust on the

provider in terms of security, management, and maintenance

of access control policies. This can be burdensome when

numerous users from different organizations with different

access control policies, are involved

(68)

Access Control (Cont.)

68

•

Consumer-managed access control

–

Consumer retains decision-making process to retain

some control, requiring less trust of the provider

(i.e. PDP is in consumer’s domain)

–

Requires the client and provider to have a

existing trust relationship, as well as a

pre-negotiated standard way of describing resources,

users, and access decisions between the cloud

provider and consumer. It also needs to be able to

guarantee that the provider will uphold the

consumer-side’s access decisions.

–

Should be at least as secure as the traditional

access control model.

–

Facebook and Google Apps do this to some degree,

but not enough control

(69)

PEP (intercepts all

resource access requests

from all client domains)

PDP

for cloud resource on Domain A

Cloud Consumer in Domain B

ACM (XACML policies) . . . re so ur ce s

Cloud Provider in Domain A

IDP 1. Authn request

2. SAML Assertion 3. Resource request (XACML Request) + SAML assertion

4. Redirect to domain of resource owner

7. Send signed and encrypted ticket

5. Retrieve policy for specified resource

6. Determine whether user can access specified resource

7. Create ticket for grant/deny 8. Decrypt and verify signature

9. Retrieve capability from ticket

10. Grant or deny access based on capability

Minimize Loss of Control:

Access Control

(70)

Minimize Loss of Control: IDM

Motivation

User on Amazon Cloud 1. Name 2. E-mail 3. Password 4. Billing Address 5. Shipping Address 6. Credit Card 1. Name 2. E-mail 3. Shipping Address 1. Name 2. Billing Address 3. Credit Card 1. Name 2. E-mail 3. Password 4. Billing Address 5. Shipping Address 6. Credit Card 1. Name 2. E-mail 3. Shipping Address

(71)

Identity in the Cloud

User on Amazon Cloud 1. Name 2. E-mail 3. Password 4. Billing Address 5. Shipping Address 6. Credit Card 1. Name 2. Billing Address 3. Credit Card

(72)

Present IDMs

•

IDM in traditional application-centric IDM model

–

Each application keeps track of identifying information of its

users.

•

Existing IDM Systems

–

Microsoft Windows CardSpace [W. A. Alrodhan]

–

OpenID [http://openid.net]

–

PRIME [S. F. Hubner]

These systems

require a

trusted third party

and

do not work on an

do not work on an untrusted host

untrusted host

.

If Trusted Third Party is compromised, all the identifying information

of the users is also compromised

[

(73)

Minimize Loss of Control: IDM

Issues in Cloud Computing

• Cloud introduces several issues to IDM _{Cloud introduces several issues to IDM}

–

Users have

multiple accounts

associated with

multiple

service providers.

–

Lack of trust

• _{Use of Trusted Third Party is not an option} • _{Cloud hosts are untrusted}

–

Loss of control

• _{Collusion between Cloud Services}

–

Sharing sensitive identity information

between services can lead to undesirable

mapping of the identities to the user.

IDM in Cloud needs to be user-centric

(74)

Minimize Loss of Control: IDM

Goals of Proposed User-Centric IDM for the Cloud

1.

1. Authenticate without disclosing identifying informationAuthenticate without disclosing identifying information 2.

2. Ability to securely use a service while on an untrusted host (VM on the Ability to securely use a service while on an untrusted host (VM on the cloud)

cloud)

3.

3. Minimal disclosure and minimized risk of disclosure during Minimal disclosure and minimized risk of disclosure during

communication between user and service provider (Man in the Middle,

Side Channel and Correlation Attacks)

Side Channel and Correlation Attacks)

4.

(75)

Minimize Loss of Control: IDM

Approach - 1

• IDM Wallet: IDM Wallet:

–

Use of AB scheme to protect PII from untrusted hosts.

• Anonymous Identification: _{Anonymous Identification:}

–

Use of Zero-knowledge proofing for authentication of an

(76)

Components of Active Bundle (Approach – 1)

• Identity data:Identity data: Data used during authentication, getting service, using Data used during authentication, getting service, using service (i.e. SSN, Date of Birth).

service (i.e. SSN, Date of Birth).

• Disclosure policy:Disclosure policy: A set of rules for choosing Identity data from a set of A set of rules for choosing Identity data from a set of identities in IDM Wallet.

identities in IDM Wallet.

• Disclosure history:_{Disclosure history:} Used for logging and auditing purposes. Used for logging and auditing purposes.

• Negotiation policy:_{Negotiation policy:} This is Anonymous Identification, based on the Zero This is Anonymous Identification, based on the Zero Knowledge Proofing.

Knowledge Proofing.

• Virtual Machine:_{Virtual Machine:} Code for protecting data on untrusted hosts. It enforces Code for protecting data on untrusted hosts. It enforces the disclosure policies.

(77)

Minimize Loss of Control: IDM

Anonymous Identification (Approach – 1)

Anonymous Identification

Anonymous Identification

(Shamir's approach for Credit Cards)

• IdP provides Encrypted Identity Information to the user and SP. IdP provides Encrypted Identity Information to the user and SP.

• SP and User interact_{SP and User interact}

• Both run IdP's public function on the certain bits of the Encrypted data. _{Both run IdP's public function on the certain bits of the Encrypted data.} • Both exchange results and agree if it matches._{Both exchange results and agree if it matches.}

(78)

Minimize Loss of Control: IDM

Usage Scenario (Approach – 1)

(79)

Approach - 2

• Active Bundle schemeActive Bundle scheme to protect PII from untrusted hosts to protect PII from untrusted hosts

• Predicates over encrypted data_{Predicates over encrypted data} to authenticate without disclosing to authenticate without disclosing unencrypted identity data.

unencrypted identity data.

(80)

Minimize Loss of Control: IDM

Usage Scenario (Approach – 2)

• Owner O encrypts Identity Data(PII) using algorithm Encrypt and O’s _{Owner O encrypts Identity Data(PII) using algorithm Encrypt and O’s}

public key PK. Encrypt outputs CT—the encrypted PII.

public key PK. Encrypt outputs CT—the encrypted PII.

• SP transforms his request for PII to a predicate represented by function _{SP transforms his request for PII to a predicate represented by function}

p.

• SP sends shares of p to the n parties who hold the shares of MSK. _{SP sends shares of p to the n parties who hold the shares of MSK.}

• n parties execute together KeyGen using PK, MSK, and p, and return TKp n parties execute together KeyGen using PK, MSK, and p, and return TKp to SP.

to SP.

• SP calls the algorithm Query that takes as input PK, CT, TKp and _{SP calls the algorithm Query that takes as input PK, CT, TKp and}

produces p(PII) which is the evaluation of the predicate.

produces p(PII) which is the evaluation of the predicate.

• The owner O is allowed to use the service only when the predicate _{The owner O is allowed to use the service only when the predicate}

evaluates to “true”.

(81)

Minimize Loss of Control: IDM

Representation of identity information

for negotiation



Token/Pseudonym



Identity Information in clear plain text

(82)

Motivation-Authentication Process using PII

Problem: Which information to disclose and how to

disclose it.

(83)

Proposed IDM:

Mechanisms

• [16] _[16]Protection of Identity Information in Cloud Computing without Protection of Identity Information in Cloud Computing without Trusted Third Party

Trusted Third Party - R. Ranchal, B. Bhargava, L.B. Othmane, L. Lilien, - R. Ranchal, B. Bhargava, L.B. Othmane, L. Lilien, A. Kim, M. Kang, Third International Workshop on Dependable

A. Kim, M. Kang, Third International Workshop on Dependable

Network Computing and Mobile Systems (DNCMS) in conjunction with

29th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed System (SRDS) 2010

29th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed System (SRDS) 2010 • [17] _[17]A User-Centric Approach for Privacy and Identity Management in A User-Centric Approach for Privacy and Identity Management in

Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing - P. Angin, B. Bhargava, R. Ranchal, N. Singh, L. - P. Angin, B. Bhargava, R. Ranchal, N. Singh, L. Lilien, L.B. Othmane 29th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed

Lilien, L.B. Othmane 29th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed

System (SRDS) 2010

• Privacy in Cloud Computing Through Identity Management Privacy in Cloud Computing Through Identity Management - B. - B.

Bhargava, N. Singh, A. Sinclair, International Conference on Advances

Bhargava, N. Singh, A. Sinclair, International Conference on Advances

in Computing and Communication ICACC-11, April, 2011, India.

•

Active Bundle

•

Anonymous Identification

•

Computing Predicates with encrypted data

•

Multi-Party Computing

(84)

Proposed IDM:

Active Bundle

• Active bundle _{Active bundle}((ABAB))

–

An encapsulating mechanism

protecting

data

carried

within

it

–

Includes

data

–

Includes

metadata

used for managing confidentiality

•

Both privacy of data and privacy of the whole AB

–

Includes Virtual Machine (VM)

•

performing a set of

operations

(85)

Proposed IDM:

Active Bundle (Cont.)

• Active Bundles—OperationsActive Bundles—Operations

–

Self-Integrity check

E.g., Uses a hash function

–

Evaporation/ Filtering

Self-destroys (a part of) AB’s sensitive data when

threatened with a disclosure

–

Apoptosis

Self-destructs AB’s completely

(86)

Proposed IDM:

Active Bundle Scheme

–

Metadata:

• _{Access control policies} • _{Data integrity checks} • Dissemination policies • _{Life duration} • ID of a trust server • _{ID of a security server} • _{App-dependent information} • _…

–

Sensitive Data:

• _Identity

Information

• ...

–

Virtual Machine

(algorithm):

• Interprets metadata

• Checks active bundle integrity • _{Enforces access and}

dissemination control policies

• … • _E(Name) • _E(E-mail) • E(Password) • _{E(Shipping Address)} • _{E(Billing Address)} • _{E(Credit Card)} • … * E( ) - Encrypted Information

(87)

Proposed IDM:

Anonymous Identification

User on Amazon Cloud 1. E-mail 2. Password 1. E-mail 2. Password User Request for service

Function f and number k

f_k(E-mail, Password) = R

ZKP Interactive Protocol

Authenticated

•

Use of Zero-knowledge proofing for user authentication

without disclosing its identifier

.

(88)

Proposed IDM:

Interaction using Active Bundle

Active Bundle (AB)

Security Services Agent (SSA)

Active Bundle Services User Application

Active Bundle Coordinator

Active Bundle Creator

Directory Facilitator

Active Bundle Destination

Trust Evaluation Agent (TEA) Audit Services Agent (ASA) Active Bundle AB information disclosure

(89)

Proposed IDM:

Predicate over Encrypted Data

•

Verification without disclosing unencrypted identity data.

• E-mail • Password • _E(Name) • E(Shipping Address) • _{E(Billing Address)} • E(Credit Card) • _E(Name) • E(Billing Address) • E(Credit Card) Predicate Request*

*Age Verification Request

(90)

Proposed IDM:

•

To become independent of a trusted third party

•

Multiple Services hold shares of the secret key

•

Minimize the risk

• _E(Name) • E(Billing Address)

• E(Credit Card)

Key Management Services

K’

1 K’2 K’3 K’n

Predicate Request

(91)

Proposed IDM:

•

To become independent of a trusted third party

•

Multiple Services hold shares of the secret key

•

Minimize the risk

• Name

• _{Billing Address} • Credit Card

Key Management Services

K’

1 K’2 K’3 K’n

Predicate Reply*

*

Age Verified

(92)

Proposed IDM:

Selective Disclosure

• _E-mail • Password • E(Name) • _{E(Shipping Address)} • E(Billing Address) • _{E(Credit Card)} Selective disclosure* • _E(E-mail) • E(Name) • _E(Shipping Address)

•

User Policies in the Active Bundle dictate dissemination

(93)

Proposed IDM:

• _E-mail • Password • E(Name) • _{E(Shipping Address)} • E(Billing Address) • _{E(Credit Card)} Selective disclosure* • _E-mail • E(Name) • _E(Shipping Address)

•

User Policies in the Active Bundle dictate dissemination

(94)

Proposed IDM:

• E-mail • E(Name) • _{E(Shipping Address)} Selective disclosure* • E(Name) • E(Shipping Address)

(95)

Proposed IDM:

• E-mail • E(Name) • _{E(Shipping Address)} Selective disclosure • Name • Shipping Address

(96)

Proposed IDM:

• E-mail • E(Name) • _{E(Shipping Address)} Selective disclosure • Name • Shipping Address

(97)

Proposed IDM:

Identity in the Cloud

User on Amazon Cloud 1. Name 2. E-mail 3. Password 4. Billing Address 5. Shipping Address 6. Credit Card 1. Name 2. Shipping Address 1. Name 2. Billing Address 3. Credit Card 1. E-mail 2. Password 1. E-mail

(98)

Proposed IDM:

Characteristics and Advantages

•

Ability to use Identity data on untrusted hosts

•

Self Integrity Check

•

Integrity compromised- apoptosis or evaporation

•

Data should not be on this host

•

Independent of Third Party

–

Prevents correlation attacks

•

Establishes the trust of users in IDM

–

Through putting the user in control of who has his data

–

Identity is being used in the process of authentication,

negotiation, and data exchange.

•

Minimal disclosure to the SP

(99)

Proposed IDM:

Conclusion & Future Work

• Problems with IDM in Cloud ComputingProblems with IDM in Cloud Computing

–

Collusion of Identity Information

–

Prohibited Untrusted Hosts

–

Usage of Trusted Third Party

• Proposed Approaches_{Proposed Approaches}

–