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Enhancing Privacy on Identity Providers

Authors:
Rafael Weingärtner
Carla Merkle Westphall

Keywords: Cloud Computing; Security; Privacy; Federation; Identity providers;

Abstract:
Cloud computing is widely used to provide on demand services as a consequence of its benefits such as reduced costs, structure flexibility and agility on resource provisioning. However, there are still people that are not comfortable with the idea of sending their sensitive data to the cloud such as the personally identifiable information (PII) that could be used to identify someone in the real world. Moreover, there have been cases of data leaks, which resulted in huge losses both for companies and its clients. Therefore, this article addresses the security and privacy aspects of identity management. We present a model that tackles privacy issues within the PII that is stored on identity providers (IdPs). Thus, our proposal supports users and improves theirs awareness when disseminating PIIs.

Pages: 82 to 88

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: November 16, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2162-2116

ISBN: 978-1-61208-376-6

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 16, 2014 to November 20, 2014