Fog computing security: a review of current applications and security solutions

By Saad Khan, S. Parkinson, Yongrui Qin. Journal of Cloud Computing, 2017

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Fog computing is a new paradigm that extends the Cloud platform model by providing computing resources on the edges of a network. It can be described as a cloud-like platform having similar data, computation, storage and application services, but is fundamentally different in that it is decentralized. In addition, Fog systems are capable of processing large amounts of data locally, operate on-premise, are fully portable, and can be installed on heterogeneous hardware. These features make the Fog platform highly suitable for time and location-sensitive applications. For example, Internet of Things (IoT) devices are required to quickly process a large amount of data. This wide range of functionality driven applications intensifies many security issues regarding data, virtualization, segregation, network, malware and monitoring. This paper surveys existing literature on Fog computing applications to identify common security gaps. Similar technologies like Edge computing, Cloudlets and Micro-data centres have also been included to provide a holistic review process. The majority of Fog applications are motivated by the desire for functionality and end-user requirements, while the security aspects are often ignored or considered as an afterthought. This paper also determines the impact of those security issues and possible solutions, providing future security-relevant directions to those responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining Fog systems.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• Fog Computing and the Internet of Things: A Review (2018, background): “Also, to identify the security issues of current models of fog computing, S. Khan et al. [44] provided a review of fog computing applications to identify common security issues.”