A research conducted by Seongmo et al. (1), has indicated a creation of CloudSafe platform, which gave results at a theoretical model of the cloud. In this study, the authors pointed towards a necessity for the testing on a actual cloud system. The study focused on AWS, but had implications for other Cloud providers in the proposed future studies, such as Azure. In the research review study, by Gudapati and Gaikwad, (2), the authors focused on creating guidelines for cloud security issues,
Nitiashree et al. (3),even proposed a three-stage data security model for cloud computing.
All these researches have shown though, that a unique or coherent direction towards a methodology for cloud containers either does not exist or is less usable for the current attacks that arise, but is needed .
The sample we gathered was heterogeneous in terms of background of software the interviewees have been applying in their daily work, with the criteria that all of them should have been doing software development for at least one year and are familiarized with Cloud-related problem.
Most of the sample included individuals with 10+ years experience with software development, both in private companies and academic departments of the University. The sample included 90% of individuals residing in Serbia, but involved either at Serbian companies or international software companies there.
Breakdown of the interview sample within our research:
Key take-aways of the study
Security vulnerabilities in cloud environment can lead to the leak of information about hosted services which is especially expressed if the background containers are executed on one host that shares the same OS kernel, because an imperiled kernel leads to the invalidation of isolation provided by the container mechanism.
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