Risk and Trust Assessment: Schemes for Cloud Services

Both risk and trust have been extensively studied in various contexts for hundreds of years. Risk management, and specifically risk assessment for IT, has also been a hot research topic for several decades. On the other hand, modeling risk and trust for cloud computing has attracted researchers only recently. This chapter from Cloud Computing Security: Foundations and Challenges provides a survey on cloud risk assessments made by various organizations, as well as risk and trust models developed for the cloud.