A Trusted Model for Secure Cloud Environment

Cloud computing is an emerging technology that gives a tremendous changes in IT industry. It has ultimate features like multitenancy, elasticity, pay-per-use, self provision etc. But the customers are still hesitant to adopt cloud computing due to security and privacy. In this paper we propose a trust model which secures client’s information from both insiders and outsiders. In this model calculation of trust is based on their compliance report which has been promised in service level agreement. Keywords: cloud computing, trust, compliance, SLA, symmetric encryption