Securing Data and Applications in Cloud. Case Study

Security is a principal concern when entrusting an organization’s critical information to geographically dispersed cloud platforms. In addition to the conventional IT system security procedures, designing security into cloud during the software development life cycle can greatly reduce the cloud attack surface. The paper focuses on presenting IBM Cloud security policies and their architecture and conducts a study of the security implementation steps, beginning with user's authentication on the Cloud platform. Hereinafter, the developed experimental application - a monitoring environment system - retrieves temperature, humidity, and pressure values from dedicated sensors, thus using the facilities offered by IBM Cloud platform.