Cloud Cube Model

In Cloud computing, the Cloud Cube Model(CCM) is developed by the Jericho forum. This model helps to classify network into four demensional parts as follows:

• Internal/External
• Insourced/ Outsourced
• Proprietary/Open
• Perimeterized/ de-perimeterized

The main goal of cloud cube model is to provide the security to the cloud network and protect it. This model helps to different organizations, IT managers and various buisiness leaders by providing secure cloud network with the help of cloud cube model. In cloud computing security plays an important part for different cloud users. Cloud cube model also enables secure collaboration of cloud formations that is helpful for different types of organizations and businesses.

Steps to Secure Data with the help of Cloud Cube Model

Step 1: To provide security and protection to the data, user should know what rules must be applied in classification of data.

Step 2: It is necessary that data should exist and fulfill specific trust levels.

Step 3: After above steps, the person/user must decide the following factors

• The formations should be able to fulfil the customer requirements.
• The service that user wants to operate in the cloud like, software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service or infrastructure-as-a-service.
• All data and required processes which are to be transfer in the cloud.

Dimensions of Cloud Cube Model

Internal/External: The information of physical location of data is given by Internal/External type. This is common form of cloud cube model. The data which is present inside the cloud is known as internal and the data resides outside the cloud known as external.

Insourced/Outsourced: This is the second dimension of cloud cube model. In this form of dimension different services are offered, the third-party services offered are known as Outsourced and the services which are self-offered is called Insourced.

Proprietary/Open: This is the third dimension of cloud cube model. The proprietary dimension means that the organization is offering the service which is secure and protected under their ownership. It defines the incomparability between data during transformation.

Perimeterized/de-perimeterized: This is the fourth form of dimension which requires collaboration oriented architecture. Perimeterized dimension always work within the traditional boundary, the customer can increase the organization’s boundary into the external cloud computing domain with the help of operation of virtual server in domain(IP) and also with the use of VPN support De-perimeterized is the data is encapsulated with metadata and structure, which will again support to secure the data and control the misuse of data.