Abstract
The extensive cloud adoption among the European Public Sector Players empowered them to own and operate a range of cloud infrastructures. These deployments vary both in the size and capabilities, as well as in the range of employed technologies and processes. The public sector, however, lacks the necessary technology to enable effective, interoperable and secure integration of a multitude of its computing clouds and services. In this work we focus on the federation of private clouds and the approaches that enable secure data sharing and processing among the collaborating infrastructures and services of public entities. We investigate the aspects of access control, data and security policy languages, as well as cryptographic approaches that enable fine-grained security and data processing in semi-trusted environments. We identify the main challenges and frame the future work that serve as an enabler of interoperability among heterogeneous infrastructures and services. Our goal is to enable both security and legal conformance as well as to facilitate transparency, privacy and effectivity of private cloud federations for the public sector needs.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Procedia Computer Science |
Subtitle of host publication | 1st International Conference on Cloud Forward: From Distributed to Complete Computing Secure Data Sharing and Processing in Heterogeneous Clouds |
Publisher | Elsevier B.V. |
Volume | 68 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 1877-0509 |
ISBN (Print) | 1877-0509 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Event | Cloud Forward Conference - Pisa, Italy Duration: 6 Oct 2015 → 8 Oct 2015 |
Conference
Conference | Cloud Forward Conference |
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Country/Territory | Italy |
City | Pisa |
Period | 6/10/15 → 8/10/15 |
Keywords
- federated clouds
- inter-cloud
- authorization federation
- security policy
- access control
- proxy re-encryption
- attribute-based encryption
- multi-cloud
- cloud federation
- cloud security
- encryption
- data masking
- format-preserving encryption
- xacml
- oauth
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Information Systems
- Computer Science (miscellaneous)
Fields of Expertise
- Information, Communication & Computing