Towards a New Paradigm for Privacy and Security in Cloud Services

TL;DR

This paper discusses a novel approach to enhancing privacy and security in cloud services by leveraging cryptography, aiming to enable secure cloud deployment even in partially trusted environments.

Contribution

It introduces a new paradigm for privacy and security in cloud computing, utilizing cryptographic techniques to protect data in less trusted cloud infrastructures.

Findings

Development of cryptography-based security technologies

Guaranteeing data security in partially trusted clouds

Advancement towards privacy-preserving cloud services

Abstract

The market for cloud computing can be considered as the major growth area in ICT. However, big companies and public authorities are reluctant to entrust their most sensitive data to external parties for storage and processing. The reason for their hesitation is clear: There exist no satisfactory approaches to adequately protect the data during its lifetime in the cloud. The EU Project Prismacloud (Horizon 2020 programme; duration 2/2015-7/2018) addresses these challenges and yields a portfolio of novel technologies to build security enabled cloud services, guaranteeing the required security with the strongest notion possible, namely by means of cryptography. We present a new approach towards a next generation of security and privacy enabled services to be deployed in only partially trusted cloud infrastructures.