Nist Cloud Security Guidelines

The national institute of standards and technology nist has been designated by the federal chief information officer cio to accelerate the federal government s secure adoption of cloud computing by leading efforts to identify existing standards and guidelines.

Nist cloud security guidelines.

1 athens greece pp. The national institute of standards and technology nist has finalized its first set of guidelines for managing security and privacy issues in cloud computing. The common characteristics most interpretations share are on demand scalability of highly available and reliable pooled computing resources secure access to metered services from nearly anywhere and displacement of data and services from inside to outside the organization. Nist cloud computing public security working group white paper challenging security requirements for us government cloud computing adoption december 2012 c.

The common characteristics most interpretations share are on demand scalability of highly available and reliable pooled computing resources secure access to metered services from nearly anywhere and displacement of data and services from inside to outside the organization. Nist sp 800 171 requirements are a subset of nist sp 800 53 the standard that fedramp uses. Cloud security guidelines and recommendations found in public private sources such as. Appendix d of nist sp 800 171 provides a direct mapping of its cui security requirements to the relevant security controls in nist sp 800 53 for which the in scope cloud services have already been assessed and authorized under the fedramp program.

Cloud computing can and does mean different things to different people. The nist definition of cloud computing author. Abstract cloud computing can and does mean different things to different people. Cloud computing has been defined by nist as a model for enabling convenient on demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources e g networks servers storage applications and services that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal.

While aspects of these characteristics have been. Mills vm leakage and orphan control in open source clouds proceedings of ieee cloudcom 2011 nov.