DataVault: secure mobile access and data sharing
Ravi Chandra Jammalamadaka, Sharad Mehrotra, Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Kent E. Seamons · Network Security · 2011
Mechanisms for data sharing are a fundamental need for both individuals and organisations. With the proliferation of networking technologies and multimedia devices, end users are generating a lot of personal information such as email, pictures, video albums, etc. Users share their personal information using a variety of methods such as disseminating information via email, posting data on publicly accessible websites, and so on. Such solutions have severe security drawbacks as unauthorised recipients can gain access to personal data. Expecting users to install and administer data-sharing architectures is unrealistic and infeasible. Likewise, organisations require trained professionals, hardware and software infrastructure to put in place a secure data-sharing architecture, making it an expensive solution.