Title: A security ensemble framework for securing the file in cloud computing environments

Authors: J. Sharon Moses; M. Nirmala; Ebin Deni Raj

Addresses: School of information Technology and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India ' School of information Technology and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India ' School of information Technology and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India

Abstract: Scalability and on-demand features of cloud computing have revolutionised IT industry in a large scale. Cloud service providers takes the entire burdens of computing, especially managing resources and file storage. Securing the file stored in cloud storage from internal and external attacks has become a primary concern for cloud storage providers as well as cloud users. In this paper, the threats involved in file storage and a secure way of protecting the stored files using a novel ensemble of security strategies is presented. This proposed strategy helps service providers as well as users to secure the file in cloud storage more efficiently.

Keywords: cloud storage; file privacy; file security; swift storage; OpenStack security; security ensemble.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCSE.2019.099080

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, 2019 Vol.18 No.4, pp.413 - 423

Received: 26 Mar 2016
Accepted: 12 Oct 2016
Published online: 15 Apr 2019 *

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