SafeFS: a modular architecture for secure user-space file systems
Rogério Pontes, Dorian Burihabwa, Francisco Maia, João T. Paulo, Valerio Schiavoni, Pascal A. Felber, Hugues Mercier, Rui Oliveira · 2017
The exponential growth of data produced, the ever faster and ubiquitous connectivity, and the collaborative processing tools lead to a clear shift of data stores from local servers to the cloud. This migration occurring across different application domains and types of users---individual or corporate---raises two immediate challenges. First, out-sourcing data introduces security risks, hence protection mechanisms must be put in place to provide guarantees such as privacy, confidentiality and integrity. Second, there is no "one-size-fits-all" solution that would provide the right level of safety or performance for all applications and users, and it is therefore necessary to provide mechanisms that can be tailored to the various deployment scenarios.