Enhancing Firewall for Serving the Distributed Security Requirements for Cloud

Abstract: Cloud computing is a recent technology used for providing the scalable and on demand computation as a service to the end user. The service used here is measurable and represents the fault tolerance behaviour. Cloud mainly serves the scalable users demands of resources and their security based on certain characteristics of distributed environment by which the controlling and managing burdensome are reduced form the service users. Along with cloud applications exponential growth the vulnerability of security breaches is also raising. This is because cloud involves defined interaction with SLA based policies for the resource and service usages. If someone violates these rules the protection level of system gets compromised. Traditional security of the system is handled by the firewall. They are made for a static and fixed environment having limited policies and interactions. But is cloud environments the scenarios are changed totally and hence the behaviour of firewall might also get adaptive as per the need of distributed computing. This paper aims to provide and effective firewall which could handle dynamic security requirements, provides better access control for various processes and users with minimum processing time and high detection rates. At the initial stages of work, the direction seems to provide benefits over the traditional systems