Security Analysis in the Migration to Cloud Environments

• Main Authors: Eduardo Fernández-Medina, Daniel Mellado, Rafael Gómez, David G. Rosado
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2012-05-01
• Series: Future Internet
• Subjects: security; Cloud computing; migration; legacy system
• Online Access: http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/4/2/469

Cloud computing is a new paradigm that combines several computing concepts and technologies of the Internet creating a platform for more agile and cost-effective business applications and IT infrastructure. The adoption of Cloud computing has been increasing for some time and the maturity of the market is steadily growing. Security is the question most consistently raised as consumers look to move their data and applications to the cloud. We justify the importance and motivation of security in the migration of legacy systems and we carry out an analysis of different approaches related to security in migration processes to cloud with the aim of finding the needs, concerns, requirements, aspects, opportunities and benefits of security in the migration process of legacy systems.