PREVENTION OF INFORMATION HARVESTING IN A CLOUD SERVICES ENVIRONMENT

L. M. Batten, J. Abawajy, R. Doss

2011

Abstract

We consider a cloud data storage involving three entities, the cloud customer, the cloud business centre which provides services, and the cloud data storage centre. Data stored in the data storage centre comes from a variety of customers and some of these customers may compete with each other in the market place or may own data which comprises confidential information about their own clients. Cloud staff have access to data in the data storage centre which could be used to steal identities or to compromise cloud customers. In this paper, we provide an efficient method of data storage which prevents staff from accessing data which can be abused as described above. We also suggest a method of securing access to data which requires more than one staff member to access it at any given time. This ensures that, in case of a dispute, a staff member always has a witness to the fact that she accessed data.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Batten L., Abawajy J. and Doss R. (2011). PREVENTION OF INFORMATION HARVESTING IN A CLOUD SERVICES ENVIRONMENT . In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-8425-52-2, pages 66-72. DOI: 10.5220/0003389700660072

in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer11,
author={L. M. Batten and J. Abawajy and R. Doss},
title={PREVENTION OF INFORMATION HARVESTING IN A CLOUD SERVICES ENVIRONMENT },
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2011},
pages={66-72},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003389700660072},
isbn={978-989-8425-52-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - PREVENTION OF INFORMATION HARVESTING IN A CLOUD SERVICES ENVIRONMENT
SN - 978-989-8425-52-2
AU - Batten L.
AU - Abawajy J.
AU - Doss R.
PY - 2011
SP - 66
EP - 72
DO - 10.5220/0003389700660072