Towards a New Paradigm for Privacy and Security in Cloud Services
This addresses privacy and security concerns for big companies and public authorities reluctant to use cloud services due to data protection issues.
The paper tackles the lack of satisfactory approaches for protecting sensitive data in cloud computing by presenting a new approach for security and privacy enabled services in partially trusted cloud infrastructures, resulting from the EU Project Prismacloud.
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.