A Framework and Improvements of the Korea Cloud Services Certification System

Table 16

Improvement method of certification grade.

As is	To be
Cloud service certification; (i) More than 70% of the evaluation indexes are satisfied; (ii) IaaS: 105 items/SaaS: 85 items; Cloud service certification with excellent SLA; (i) Additional items (availability above 99.9%, compensation criteria, ISMS, ISO27001, and certification acquisition) are satisfied in addition to the cloud service certification requirements	Grant a grading system for each certification; (levels 1~5); (i) Subdivide cloud service certification grade into two grades and simplify the screening/evaluation items and document for each grade; (ii) Subdivide the excellent SLA grade into three grades and differentiate the screening/evaluation items for each grade