Secure Monitoring and Notification System for Cloud Infrastructures

As the number of cyber attacks on cloud infrastructures increases, cloud monitoring systems are needed to detect possible breaches, identify security gaps, and secure the cloud assets well before a possible cyber attack happens. In this paper, we present a monitoring system for cloud infrastructures that can collect statistics, detect several types of issues in the cloud and send notifications in a protected form to the owner. Our solution supports data confidentiality and integrity for cloud instance notifications and alerts, so that they can be sent via email or in popular messengers, such as Microsoft Teams or Slack. Furthermore, our solution provides fine-grained role-based and attribute-based access control for cloud instance notifications and alerts. We will also show how we integrated our cloud monitoring solution with the Amazon EC2 cloud. However, our approach is generic and can be used on other cloud platforms.