Tenant - vendor and third-party agreements for the cloud: Considerations for security provision

Cloud Computing has an expanding future in both business and Information Technology. With the expanding hybrid cloud model offering better services and convenience there are also a number of security problems associated with cloud standardization, multi-tenancy third party privity/sub-contracting, data-controller, outages, availability, monitoring and the service level agreements. This paper focuses on Hybrid Cloud Computing security in the context of a Tenant-Vendor-Third-Party environment and service level agreements. Limitations, opportunities and suggestions to mitigate the security risks are discussed and summarized.