Service Level Agreements and Security SLA: A Comprehensive Survey

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Autori principali: Nicolazzo, Serena, Nocera, Antonino, Pedrycz, Witold
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author Nicolazzo, Serena
Nocera, Antonino
Pedrycz, Witold
author_facet Nicolazzo, Serena
Nocera, Antonino
Pedrycz, Witold
contents A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a formal contract between a service provider and a consumer, representing a crucial instrument to define, manage, and maintain relationships between these two parties. The SLA's ability to define the Quality of Service (QoS) expectations, standards, and accountability helps to deliver high-quality services and increase client confidence in disparate application domains, such as Cloud computing and the Internet of Things. An open research direction in this context is related to the possible integration of new metrics to address the security and privacy aspects of services, thus providing protection of sensitive information, mitigating risks, and building trust. This survey paper identifies state of the art covering concepts, approaches, and open problems of SLA management with a distinctive and original focus on the recent development of Security SLA (SecSLA). It contributes by carrying out a comprehensive review and covering the gap between the analyses proposed in existing surveys and the most recent literature on this topic, spanning from 2017 to 2023. Moreover, it proposes a novel classification criterium to organize the analysis based on SLA life cycle phases. This original point of view can help both academics and industrial practitioners to understand and properly locate existing contributions in the advancement of the different aspects of SLA technology. The present work highlights the importance of the covered topics and the need for new research improvements to tackle present and demanding challenges.
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spellingShingle Service Level Agreements and Security SLA: A Comprehensive Survey
Nicolazzo, Serena
Nocera, Antonino
Pedrycz, Witold
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Cryptography and Security
A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a formal contract between a service provider and a consumer, representing a crucial instrument to define, manage, and maintain relationships between these two parties. The SLA's ability to define the Quality of Service (QoS) expectations, standards, and accountability helps to deliver high-quality services and increase client confidence in disparate application domains, such as Cloud computing and the Internet of Things. An open research direction in this context is related to the possible integration of new metrics to address the security and privacy aspects of services, thus providing protection of sensitive information, mitigating risks, and building trust. This survey paper identifies state of the art covering concepts, approaches, and open problems of SLA management with a distinctive and original focus on the recent development of Security SLA (SecSLA). It contributes by carrying out a comprehensive review and covering the gap between the analyses proposed in existing surveys and the most recent literature on this topic, spanning from 2017 to 2023. Moreover, it proposes a novel classification criterium to organize the analysis based on SLA life cycle phases. This original point of view can help both academics and industrial practitioners to understand and properly locate existing contributions in the advancement of the different aspects of SLA technology. The present work highlights the importance of the covered topics and the need for new research improvements to tackle present and demanding challenges.
title Service Level Agreements and Security SLA: A Comprehensive Survey
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00009