@inproceedings{03971ef71b7144be91a0cb909ed93c9a,
title = "Data protection as a service in the multi-cloud environment",
abstract = "This paper introduces a framework for Data Protection as a Service (DPaaS) to cloud computing users. Compared to the existing Data Encryption as a Service (DEaaS) such as those provided by Amazon and Google, our DPaaS framework provides more flexibility, control and visibility for protecting data in the cloud. In addition to supporting the basic data encryption capability as DEaaS does, this DPaaS framework allows data owners to define fine-grained access control policies to protect their data. Data protected by an access control policy are automatically encrypted and access is granted to user/applications according with the policy. In general, the DPaaS enables the separation of concerns between security and data management, in addition to defining a full cycle of data security automation from encryption to decryption. Our proof-of-concept prototype of the DPaaS works with hybrid multi-cloud environments including private clouds and virtual data-centers using OpenStack, CloudStack and VMWare as well as public clouds being the BT Cloud Compute platform and Amazon (AWS). Experiments on the prototype have proved the efficiency of the framework.",
keywords = "Access Control, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Data Encryption, Data Protection, Multi Cloud",
author = "Maurizio Colombo and Rasool Asal and Hieu, {Quang Hieu} and {Ali El-Moussa}, Fadi and Ali Sajjad and Theo Dimitrakos",
note = "Funding Information: The work of some co-authors has been partly supported by the European research and innovation projects STRATEGIC and ESCUDO-CLOUD. STRATEGIC has received funding from the European Union{\textquoteright}s Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme under grant agreement No. 621009 and ESCUDO-CLOUD has received funding from the European Union{\textquoteright}s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No. 644579. Funding Information: The work of some co-authors has been partly supported by the European research and innovation projects STRATEGIC and ESCUDO-CLOUD. STRATEGIC has received funding from the European Union's Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme under grant agreement No. 621009 and ESCUDO-CLOUD has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No. 644579. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 IEEE.; 12th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD 2019 ; Conference date: 08-07-2019 Through 13-07-2019",
year = "2019",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1109/CLOUD.2019.00025",
language = "British English",
series = "IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "81--85",
editor = "Elisa Bertino and Chang, {Carl K.} and Peter Chen and Ernesto Damiani and Michael Goul and Katsunori Oyama",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD 2019 - Part of the 2019 IEEE World Congress on Services",
address = "United States",
}