Data Privacy in Cloud Computing Applications: Threats, Challenges, and Solutions

Overview

Cloud computing marks a paradigm shift in the way consumer and business services are offered and consumed in real-time over the Internet. Several companies such as Amazon, Google, IBM, SUN already offer such services. Data privacy is a major concern for application envisioned to run in the cloud. While cryptography plays a critical role in providing tools to ensure data privacy, more research is needed in creating protocols that provide data privacy and can meet the performance and scalability requirement of applications running in the cloud.

This project will study cryptographic protocols to provide data privacy for distributed applications for cloud computing. We will study current state-of-the art protocols and develop new protocols to provide data privacy. Students will conduct (1) a survey on requirements for applications running in the cloud and the associated privacy threats and (2) a survey of existent research in providing data privacy, and study how they can be applied in the context of applications for cloud computing. The final goal is for the students to be able to develop and evaluate new protocols that provide data privacy for cloud computing applications.

Students

    Current Members

    • Emily Raymond, Senior
    • Lauren Stuart, Senior

Funding

This project is funded by a grant from the Committe on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W)