CloudTrust Protocol Information Overview (pdf) - Cloud Security ...

CloudTrust Protocol Revealed(Research extension detailing ‘what’ and ‘how’ – July 2010)• Transparency in the cloud is the key to capturingdigital trust payoffs for both cloud consumers andcloud providers.• The CloudTrust Protocol (CTP) offers anuncomplicated, natural way to request and receivefundamental information about essential elementsof transparency.• The reliable delivery of only a few elements oftransparency generate a lot of digital trust, andthat digital trust liberates cloud users to bringmore and more core enterprise services and datato cloud techniques.• Transparency-as-a-Service (TaaS) using the CTPprovides a flexible, uniform, and simple techniquefor reclaiming transparency into actual cloudarchitectures, configurations, services, and status… responding to both cloud user and cloudprovider needs.• Transparency protocols like the CTP must beaccompanied by corresponding concepts ofoperation and contractual conditions to becompletely effective.http://www.csc.com/cloud/insights/57785-into_the_cloud_with_ctpCloudTrust Protocol Orientation | Ron Knode | CTP to CSA 6 June 2011Page 6