ENSURING SECURE TRANSFER, ACCESS AND STORAGE OVER THE CLOUD STORAGE

Ramani S, Amol Bhatnagar, Anant Mehrotra

Abstract: The main concern in today’s growing IT sectors is the storage and maintenance of the data. As the data keep on updating according to the needs of users, there is a huge overhead in the maintenance of the hardware by the company. One of the solutions to this problem is the use of cloud storage for this enormous data. The cloud storage uses the huge data centers, which are remotely located, to store the data. In addition to the easy storage of the data, this huge data center also reduces the cost of maintenance of the data .However this distinct feature of cloud storage leads to many security issues which should be lucidly understood by the IT sectors. One of the emerging security issue would be the integrity of the data stored in the data center i.e. to check whether the cloud provider misuses the data or not .The cloud provider can misuses the data in many ways like they can copy or modify the file .Due to the storage of data on the data center, user is not able to access the data physically thus there should be the way by which user can check the reliability of the data on the cloud. In this paper we provide the scheme to check the reliability of the data and this scheme can be agreed upon by both the user and the cloud provider.

Keywords: Cloud Security, Masking, Cloud Storage Security, Data Center

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0303110