Supporting the security certification and privacy level agreements in the context of clouds

Outsourcing services into the cloud is a worthwhile alternative to classic service models from both a customers and providers point of view. Therefore many new cloud providers surface, offering their cloud solutions. The trust and acceptance for cloud solutions are however still not given for many customers since a lot of security incidents related to cloud computing were reported. One possibility for companies to raise the trust in the own products is to gain a certification for them based on ISO27001. The certification is however a large hurdle, especially for small and medium enterprises since they lack resources and know-how. In this paper we present an overview of the ClouDAT framework. It represents a tool based approach to help in the certification process for cloud services specifically tailored to SMEs.