information security

Pratap Raju Nandyala 

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Should you encrypt data before transferring it to the cloud or encrypt it after it is stored in the cloud? Explain your answer.

            Today representatives, merchants and accomplices regularly move, offer and store records in distributed storage managements like Box and Dropbox. The sheer simplicity and accommodation with which individuals can team up upgrades usefulness, permitting them to work the manner in which they need utilizing the gadgets they need. However, however helpful as they may be, public distributed storage managements have additionally presented an immense information security hole. They can keep on sharing data after they leave the organization, or neglect to quit imparting to a previous accomplice, or their record can be hacked. In these really normal situations, information security out of nowhere depends on the questionable expectation that information will stay ensured (Ahmad & Khandekar, 2014).

            At present, information put away in distributed storage managements is powerless against account hacking, client control after end, SSL shortcomings, or is passed on to the protections of the supplier, since the supplier is playing out the real encryption. Dell Data Protection | Cloud Edition gives an extra encryption key, put away on your organization and possessed by you, so information is watched even from the capacity supplier itself. This additional layer of insurance between your information and the cloud specialist organization assists you stay in consistence with information security guidelines like HIPAA, HITECH, PCI, and others (Kaushik & Gandhi, 2016).

            It likewise empowers you to survey and investigate, to confirm strategy implementation, and to set changes as expectations direct. This worth incorporates having all that is known to workers, accomplices and customers, just as dividing this information between representatives, divisions and surprisingly different organizations in compatibility of making best practices. These days, information the board is a "fundamental test and will be an essential ability for a cutting edge chief". Organizations neglecting to deal with their insight are presented to contracting authoritative memory and information assets, since they don't uphold their representatives and keep them from being information laborers (Tebaa et al, 2012).

References

Ahmad, I., & Khandekar, A. (2014). Homomorphic encryption method applied to cloud computing. International Journal of Information & Computation Technology, 4(15), 1519-1530.

Kaushik, S., & Gandhi, C. (2016, March). Cloud data security with hybrid symmetric encryption. In 2016 International Conference on Computational Techniques in Information and Communication Technologies (ICCTICT) (pp. 636-640). IEEE.

Tebaa, M., El Hajji, S., & El Ghazi, A. (2012, July). Homomorphic encryption applied to the cloud computing security. In Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering (Vol. 1, No. 2012, pp. 4-6).

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Abhinay Yarlagadda 

Week 11 Discussion

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Access Control

Cloud services are the current generation technology in which most organizations are performing their business activities and operations. Cloud services are efficient in providing encryption methodology on the network layer (Prajapati & Shah, 2020). Cloud encryption describes the procedure of converting sensitive information into an encrypted format or ciphertext which is unreadable for humans (Rauthan et al., 2020). Encryption methods are reliable in transferring confidential information to other locations in a secured platform. DES, RSA, and AES are the most reliable methods which were widely utilized in the cloud network (Rauthan et al., 2020). Transferring encrypted data is considered a reliable method for securing the data. Encryption can be utilized for various purposes like stored data in the cloud platform can be encrypted which will restrict unauthorized access and data breaches (Meshram et al., 2020). Current generation cyber-attacks have been upgraded and organizations that are dependent on the data need to secure their information. Encryption would be one of the effective methods for transferring and storing the data in a secured region (Prajapati & Shah, 2020).

Boxcryptor is one of the secured software applications which is utilized for securing the data during the data transferring and accessing tasks (Prajapati & Shah, 2020). Boxcryptor works in the security layer of cloud storage. This particular application can encrypt the data which was already stored in the cloud database (Meshram et al., 2020). In the business sector, most organizations are dependent on the data analytical services which are based on the cloud platform are efficient in deriving important information from the raw data. Data security is considered a priority for every organization (Rauthan et al., 2020). Even though cloud services are considered third-party services, the technologies which were utilized for manipulating the data in the cloud network are reliable. Most of the applications are based on cloud services due to the flexibility inaccessibility of data even in remote locations (Prajapati & Shah, 2020). Encrypting the data during the transmission of the data to other locations is an effective method for the secured transmission of sensitive data (Meshram et al., 2020). Value-added services from the cloud service provider will be restricted and previewing the content will be disabled. Decrypting software will be necessary for viewing the content of the ciphertext (Prajapati & Shah, 2020).

References

Meshram, C., Lee, C., Ranadive, A. S., Li, C., Meshram, S. G., & Tembhurne, J. V. (2020). A subtree‐based transformation model for cryptosystem using chaotic maps under cloud computing environment for fuzzy user data sharing. International Journal of Communication Systems, 33(7), 1–15.  https://doi.org/10.1002/dac.4307

Prajapati, P., & Shah, P. (2020). A Review on Secure Data Deduplication: Cloud Storage Security Issue. Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jksuci.2020.10.021

Rauthan, J. S., Vaisla, K. S., Thampi, S. M., El-Alfy, E.-S. M., & Trajkovic, L. (2020). Homomorphic encryption approach for the exploration of sensitive information retrieval. Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, 38(5), 6495–6505.  https://doi.org/10.3233/JIFS-179730

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