Udhyan Timilsina, Leah Riungu-Kalliosaari, Ossi Taipale, Kari Smolander, Wang Weijun
The objective of this study is to evaluate security issues of cloud testing. Organizations are increasingly moving to the cloud and sharing their information, but there are concerns about security issues and risks that may arise due to security breaches. This paper extends the concept of security approach during testing. It makes use of a literature review to evaluate the risk of eight security issues when testing in public clouds. The security issues including trust, governance, compliance, identity and access management, availability, data security, instance isolation and its failures, and architecture in testing on a public cloud. The paper also includes an empirical survey to evaluate the current security strategies of different public cloud providers on the eight security issues.
