Penetration testing on cloud---case study with owncloud

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18844/gjit.v5i2.198

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Wenjuan Xu
Frostburg State University, 101 Braddock Rd., Frostburg, MD 21532, USA.
Brian Groves
Frostburg State University, 101 Braddock Rd., Frostburg, MD 21532, USA.
Willson Kwok
Allegany County of Community College, USA.

Abstract

 

The cloud computing techniques bring different security challenges. In this paper, we set up ownCloud as the example cloud computing infrastructure. Then we present our work process and results of a series of penetration testing performed on the ownCloud.  We also analyse these results and give key recommendations for addressing the identified vulnerabilities.

 

 Keywords: cloud computing, security, penetration tesing, owncloud

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Xu, W., Groves, B., & Kwok, W. (2016). Penetration testing on cloud---case study with owncloud. Global Journal of Information Technology: Emerging Technologies, 5(2), 87–94. https://doi.org/10.18844/gjit.v5i2.198
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