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Authors:
Paul Reinhold
Wolfgang Benn
Benjamin Krause
Frank Goetz
Dirk Labudde
Keywords: Hybrid Cloud, Cloud Security, Architecture Layer, Industry Research, Small Medium Enterprises
Abstract:
Besides security and privacy concerns, high efforts, necessary for developing and maintaining cloud services in the modern IT landscapes, are new major issues in small and medium enterprises. Software service development and operations face new challenges in dynamic cloud environments. To establish the cloud service and to address privacy and security issues, our suggested scalable Encryption Layer can be used. With our approach, small and medium enterprises, can securely outsource their data to public cloud storages preventing the public cloud provider from data insight, even with full access to the physical machines. This paper introduces an in-depth description for setting up our Encryption Layer, and also provides solutions for problems which may arise during the implementation and setup process of cloud environments. The presented test results of our implemented prototype demonstrate, with an overall overhead of 50% to 75%, the practical applicability.
Pages: 727 to 739
Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2014. Used with permission.
Publication date: December 30, 2014
Published in: journal
ISSN: 1942-2628