Trusted Cloud Computing with Secure Resources and Data Coloring

  • Authors:
  • Kai Hwang;Deyi Li

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Southern California, Los Angeles;Tsinghua University, Beijing

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Internet Computing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Trust and security have prevented businesses from fully accepting cloud platforms. To protect clouds, providers must first secure virtualized data-center resources, uphold user privacy, and preserve data integrity. The authors suggest using a trust-overlay network over multiple data centers to implement a reputation system for establishing trust between service providers and data owners. Data coloring and software watermarking techniques protect shared data objects and massively distributed software modules. These techniques safeguard multi-way authentications, enable single sign-on in the cloud, and tighten access control for sensitive data in both public and private clouds.