Automation system for validation of configuration and security compliance in managed cloud services

Proceedings - 9th IEEE International Conference on E-Business Engineering, ICEBE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 285-291

  Chieu, Trieu C ^a   Singh, Manas ^a   Tang, Chunqiang ^a   Viswanathan, Mahesh ^b   Gupta, Ashu ^c  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

^c IBM INDIA RESEARCH LAB   (India)

Author keywords

Automation; cloud computing; compliance; configuration; provisioning; quality assurance; virtual machine

Indexed keywords

COMPLIANCE; CONFIGURATION; ENTERPRISE CUSTOMERS; PROVISIONING; SECURITY COMPLIANCE; SECURITY CONFIGURATIONS; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

AUTOMATION; CLOUD COMPUTING; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 84875509470     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICEBE.2012.53     Document Type: Conference Paper

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