Vulnerability Risk Management (VRM) is a critical element in cloud security that directly impacts cloud providers’ security assurance levels. Today, VRM is a challenging process because of the dramatic increase of known vulnerabilities (+26% in the last five years), and because it is even more dependent on the organization’s context. Moreover, the vulnerability’s severity score depends on the Vulnerability Database (VD) selected as a reference in VRM. All these factors introduce a new challenge for security specialists in evaluating and patching the vulnerabilities. This study provides a framework to improve the classification and evaluation phases in vulnerability risk management while using multiple vulnerability databases as a reference. Our solution normalizes the severity score of each vulnerability based on the selected security assurance level. The results of our study highlighted the role of the vulnerability databases in patch prioritization, showing the advantage of using multiple VDs.

Normalization Framework for Vulnerability Risk Management in Cloud / Ahmadi Mehri, Vida; Arlos, Patrick; Casalicchio, Emiliano. - (2021). (Intervento presentato al convegno The 8th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2021) tenutosi a Roma (Virtuale)).

Normalization Framework for Vulnerability Risk Management in Cloud

Emiliano Casalicchio
Ultimo
Funding Acquisition
2021

Abstract

Vulnerability Risk Management (VRM) is a critical element in cloud security that directly impacts cloud providers’ security assurance levels. Today, VRM is a challenging process because of the dramatic increase of known vulnerabilities (+26% in the last five years), and because it is even more dependent on the organization’s context. Moreover, the vulnerability’s severity score depends on the Vulnerability Database (VD) selected as a reference in VRM. All these factors introduce a new challenge for security specialists in evaluating and patching the vulnerabilities. This study provides a framework to improve the classification and evaluation phases in vulnerability risk management while using multiple vulnerability databases as a reference. Our solution normalizes the severity score of each vulnerability based on the selected security assurance level. The results of our study highlighted the role of the vulnerability databases in patch prioritization, showing the advantage of using multiple VDs.
2021
The 8th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2021)
Risk Assessment, Vulnerability, Cloud security
04 Pubblicazione in atti di convegno::04b Atto di convegno in volume
Normalization Framework for Vulnerability Risk Management in Cloud / Ahmadi Mehri, Vida; Arlos, Patrick; Casalicchio, Emiliano. - (2021). (Intervento presentato al convegno The 8th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2021) tenutosi a Roma (Virtuale)).
File allegati a questo prodotto
Non ci sono file associati a questo prodotto.

I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.

Utilizza questo identificativo per citare o creare un link a questo documento: https://hdl.handle.net/11573/1571872
 Attenzione

Attenzione! I dati visualizzati non sono stati sottoposti a validazione da parte dell'ateneo

Citazioni
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.pmc??? ND
  • Scopus 5
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.isi??? ND
social impact