A secure mobile cloud identity: Criteria for effective identity and access management standards

Nitin Naik*, Paul Jenkins

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Managing digital identities and access control for cloud users and applications remains one of the greatest challenges facing cloud computing today. This led to a new cloud security service paradigm called identity and access management (IAM) service, IDentity-as-a-Service (IDaaS). Many IAM standards have been proposed in the last two decades: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Central Authentication Service (CAS), OZ Protocol, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), CoSign Protocol, Open Authentication (OAuth), and OpenID Connect (OIDC). However, Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) IAM requirements are somewhat different due to its resource limitations and mobile communication. It may not be necessary that the same IAM standards are equally effective for MCC. To determine the appropriateness of these IAM standards for MCC requires some IAM performance evaluation criteria. Therefore, this paper proposes several evaluation criteria for an effective IAM standard for MCC.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2016 4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering, MobileCloud 2016
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages89-90
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781509017546
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 May 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering, MobileCloud 2016 - Oxford, United Kingdom
Duration: 29 Mar 20161 Apr 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2016 4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering, MobileCloud 2016

Conference

Conference4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering, MobileCloud 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityOxford
Period29/03/161/04/16

Keywords

  • IAM
  • IDaaS
  • Identity and Access Management
  • MCC
  • Mobile Cloud Computing
  • SSO

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