Enabling Public Accountability and Data Sharing for Storage Security in Cloud Computing
Anny Sekar, Mohammed Ameen · Open Journal of Information Security and Applications · 2014
Cloud computing provides high end services to the user from various places over the Internet on an as per the user needs. An important feature of the cloud services is that users data are usually processed remotely in unknown machines that users do not own or operate by themselves. While users fear of losing control of their own data becomes a significant barrier to wider adoption of cloud services. To address this problem, hereby proposes an information accountability framework to keep track of the actual usage of the users data in the cloud accessed by various users. Bringing the JAR programmable capabilities to create a dynamic and traveling object (Java ARchieves), and to ensure that any access to user data will trigger authentication and automated logging local to the JARs. To strengthen users control, and to provide distributed auditing mechanisms our work is implemented which allows the data owner to edit his content as well as enforce back end protection if needed. Finally the experimental studies demonstrated the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed approaches.