Future Internet 2012, 4(2), 469-487; doi:10.3390/fi4020469
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Security Analysis in the Migration to Cloud Environments

David G. Rosado 1,* email, Rafael Gómez 2 email, Daniel Mellado 2 email and Eduardo Fernández-Medina 1 email
1 GSyA Research Group, Department of Information Systems and Technologies, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, 13170, Spain 2 Spanish Tax Agency, Madrid, 28046, Spain
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 20 December 2011; in revised form: 23 April 2012 / Accepted: 24 April 2012 / Published: 8 May 2012
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Web Services)
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Abstract: Cloud computing is a new paradigm that combines several computing concepts and technologies of the Internet creating a platform for more agile and cost-effective business applications and IT infrastructure. The adoption of Cloud computing has been increasing for some time and the maturity of the market is steadily growing. Security is the question most consistently raised as consumers look to move their data and applications to the cloud. We justify the importance and motivation of security in the migration of legacy systems and we carry out an analysis of different approaches related to security in migration processes to cloud with the aim of finding the needs, concerns, requirements, aspects, opportunities and benefits of security in the migration process of legacy systems.
Keywords: security; Cloud computing; migration; legacy system

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Rosado, D.G.; Gómez, R.; Mellado, D.; Fernández-Medina, E. Security Analysis in the Migration to Cloud Environments. Future Internet 2012, 4, 469-487.

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Rosado DG, Gómez R, Mellado D, Fernández-Medina E. Security Analysis in the Migration to Cloud Environments. Future Internet. 2012; 4(2):469-487.

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Rosado, David G.; Gómez, Rafael; Mellado, Daniel; Fernández-Medina, Eduardo. 2012. "Security Analysis in the Migration to Cloud Environments." Future Internet 4, no. 2: 469-487.

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