MuSIC: An IT security architecture for inter-community clouds

The evolution towards the Inter-Cloud (a global “cloud of clouds”) represents a huge developmental leap for cloud computing, enabling new innovative value-added services. Naturally, one of the main issues of interconnecting clouds is security (i. e., Interor Intra-cloud security). MuSIC addresses this issue by proposing an IT security architecture which concepts have been developed on the basis of the input of more than 25 leading research and industry organizations from the Munich Security Cluster. Based on requirements derived from realistic and innovative Inter-Cloud use cases, the architecture with six core modules has been defined and corresponding IT Service Management processes have been specified.