A Survey on Privacy Preserving and Access Control in Public Clouds

Open Access

Abstract

With the advent of cloud computing, sharing data through any cloud service provider has never been more economical and easier than now. It offers improved processing and storage resources as on-demand services with reduce cost, and increase efficiency, performance and reliability. All of these features and more encourage enterprises, governments and others to migrate to the cloud. However, such cloud providers more vulnerable to threats. Hence, data privacy and security issues have been major concerns for many organizations utilizing such services. The target of this survey is to explore various mechanisms like Encryption, Authentication, Key management used on clouds; that provide security, scalability and flexibility access control over public clouds.Keywords: Privacy; Security; Cloud Computing; Encryption; Access Control;