Data Centric Security Approach: A Way to Achieve Security & Privacy in Cloud Computing

Abstract

Recent researches have shown the focus of various researchers in improving of the security at OS level, Virtual Machine/Hardware level or at application level. But still no broad solution is provided for this problem and still the data security measures are being cared by the cloud providers. Another trend of research is based on Trust Computing concepts. This concept of Trust Computing provides certain set of technologies to trusted third party for securing virtual machines from cloud providers. This concept provides the user with various tools to monitor and assess the data in a secured manner but with much managed facility. In gap, Data Centric Security (DCS) upcoming technology that provides the data provider with full control of security of the data that is being provided right from the beginning till it is removed i.e. throughout the lifespan. DCS technology has been mentioned in various ways in the literature but there is still not a homogeneous framework for apply it to cloud model.