Trust more, serverless
Brenner S, Kapitza R (2019)
Publication Type: Conference contribution
Publication year: 2019
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages Range: 33-43
Conference Proceedings Title: SYSTOR 2019 - Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference
Event location: Haifa, ISR
ISBN: 9781450367493
Abstract
The increasingly popular and novel Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) clouds allow users the deployment of single functions. Compared to Infrastructure-as-a-Service or Platform-as-a-Service, this enables providers even more aggressive and rigorous resource sharing and liberates customers from tedious maintenance tasks. However, as a crucial factor of cloud adoption, FaaS clouds need to provide security and privacy guarantees in order to allow sensitive data processing. In this paper, we investigate securing FaaS clouds for sensitive data processing, while respecting their new features, capabilities and benefits in a technology-aware manner. We start with the proposal of a generic approach for a JavaScript-based secure FaaS platform, then get more specific and discuss the implementation of two distinct approaches based on (a) a lightweight and (b) a high performance JavaScript engine. Our prototype implementation shows promising performance while efficiently utilising resources, thereby keeping the penalties of the added security low.
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APA:
Brenner, S., & Kapitza, R. (2019). Trust more, serverless. In SYSTOR 2019 - Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (pp. 33-43). Haifa, ISR: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
MLA:
Brenner, Stefan, and Rüdiger Kapitza. "Trust more, serverless." Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference, SYSTOR 2019, Haifa, ISR Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2019. 33-43.
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