Fiscal Year	2011
Division	Graduate School of Operational & Information Sciences
Department	Computer Science
Investigator(s)	Irvine, Cynthia E.
Sponsor	National Reconnaissance Office (DoD)
Summary	The objective of the Multilevel Secure Cloud Services project is to investigate and develop several MLS remote-access methods in which policy enforcement is transparent. Resource abstraction and resource provisioning are at the heart of the cloud services tasks: MLS DNS, MLS cloud storage and MLS cloud applications. The Domain Name System (DNS) is a critical enabling technology for web-based abstractions, allowing a single name to be mapped to one or more hosts. We propose to extend DNS to enforce an MLS policy over IP-level access requests, and implement these changes using MYSEA as a test bed. This abstraction can be utilized, among other things, for load distribution and for provisioning multiple hosts to provide fault-tolerant services. The MLS cloud storage and MLS cloud applications tasks will lay the groundwork for future implementations of MLS policy with cloud resource abstractions.
Keywords	Multilevel Security Cloud Services DNS Storage Services Trustworthy Systems
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