Hybrid Trust Framework for Loss of Control in Cloud Computing

Today cloud computing is prone to security and privacy threats. Decrement in security within clouds contributes to a loss of clients-confidence, lack of control and loss of trustworthiness in cloud service providers. Loss of control occurs when clients lose their control over their own resources in the hand of service provider. As lack of authentication and access control placed by providers, loss of control contributes to greater security concern. In this research, a novel trust framework is proposed which focus on tackling the loss of central concern by granting back control to the cloud clients in ensuring their service provider environments fully secure and trustworthy. Secondly, the trust model also functions in ensuring that both client and service providers transaction follows set of security mechanism in place. The results proved that both trust need to be enforced is any cloud. Thus the proposed trust model contributes as a mean to solve the security challenges known as loss of control.