Abstract
The advantages of using cloud computing include scalability, availability and a virtually ‘unlimited’ storage capacity. However, it is challenging to build storage services that are at the same time safe from the customer point-of-view and that run in public cloud infrastructures managed by service providers that can not be fully considered trustworthy. Owners of large amounts of data have to keep their data in the cloud for a long period of time without the need to keep copies of the original data or to access it. In such cases, questions of Integrity, availability, privacy and trust are still challenges in the adoption of Cloud Storage Services to ensure security, especially when losing or leaking information can bring significant damage, be it legal or business-related. With such concerns in mind, this paper proposes a protocol to monitor the information stored in the cloud and the behaviour of contracted storage services periodically. The proposed protocol, which is based on trust and encryption, is validated by analysis and simulation that demonstrate its utilization of computing resources compared to its results regarding cloud storage protection that are achieved over time.
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The authors wish to thank the Brazilian research, development and innovation Agencies CAPES (Grant FORTE 23038.007604/2014-69), FINEP (Grant RENASIC/PROTO 01.12.0555.00) and the Research Support Foundation of the Federal District FAPDF, as well as the Science and Technology Department of the Brazilian Army, the Brazilian Public Administration School ENAP (Cooperation Agreement 02/2013) and the Brazilian Union Public Defender DPGU (Cooperation Agreement 30/2014), for their support to this work.
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Pinheiro, A., Canedo, E.D., de Sousa, R.T., de Oliveira Albuquerque, R. (2016). A Proposed Protocol for Periodic Monitoring of Cloud Storage Services Using Trust and Encryption. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2016. ICCSA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9787. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42108-7_4
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