Secure Connectivity for Intra-cloud and Inter-cloud Communication

The cloud has become an attractive platform for enterprises to deploy and execute their business services for B2B collaborations. Naturally, some of the confidential B2B collaborations require secure tunnels to secure the messaging between the services that are deployed within the same cloud or different clouds. This article examines this issue by reviewing existing network security technologies and presenting an electronic contract based solution that provides a secure Connectivity as a Service (CaaS) for intra-cloud and inter-cloud communications with little or no configuration effort.

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