On Protecting Data Storage in Mobile Cloud Computing Paradigm
Al-kindy Athman Abdalla, Al‐Sakib Khan Pathan · IETE Technical Review · 2014
To enhance the security of mobile cloud storage, a few proposals have been presented already, most of which focus on securing data through passwords and encryption-decryption of data through cryptographic tools and existing or rather new algorithms. However, these passwords and algorithms eventually get cracked by the expert hackers who mostly spend their entire time learning the algorithms and the way to get through the password-protected frameworks. It is for this reason that our article concentrates on a different way of securing data-storage for mobile cloud computing users. In this article, we present a secure framework that helps protect the mobile-user data through storage in different servers located at different geographical locations across the globe. In this way, it ensures strong data protection ability, because part of the data is stored in one server located at a location and another part of the data is stored in another server located at a far different location. We also analyse various facets of the issue and report on the state-of-the-art achievements.