6th International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, Worksharing

Research Article

Secure data storage and retrieval in the cloud

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.collaboratecom.2010.15,
        author={Bhavani Thuraisingham and Vaibhav Khadilkar and Anuj Gupta and Murat Kantarcioglu and Latifur Khan},
        title={Secure data storage and retrieval in the cloud},
        proceedings={6th International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, Worksharing},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={COLLABORATECOM},
        year={2011},
        month={5},
        keywords={Cloud Computing Hadoop Hive Web applications},
        doi={10.4108/icst.collaboratecom.2010.15}
    }
    
  • Bhavani Thuraisingham
    Vaibhav Khadilkar
    Anuj Gupta
    Murat Kantarcioglu
    Latifur Khan
    Year: 2011
    Secure data storage and retrieval in the cloud
    COLLABORATECOM
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.collaboratecom.2010.15
Bhavani Thuraisingham1, Vaibhav Khadilkar1, Anuj Gupta1, Murat Kantarcioglu1, Latifur Khan1
  • 1: The University of Texas at Dallas, 800 W. Campbell Road, Richardson, TX 75080

Abstract

With the advent of the World Wide Web and the emergence of e-commerce applications and social networks, organizations across the world generate a large amount of data daily. This data would be more useful to cooperating organizations if they were able to share their data. Two major obstacles to this process of data sharing are providing a common storage space and secure access to the shared data. In this paper we address these issues by combining cloud computing technologies such as Hive and Hadoop with XACML policy based security mechanisms that provide fine-grained access to resources. We further present a web-based application that uses this combination and allows collaborating organizations to securely store and retrieve large amounts of data.