Research on Cloud Computing and Data Encryption

This presentation discusses the background, literature review, research questions, significance, aims, contribution, research strategy, data gathering and analysis techniques, and ethics of a research on cloud computing and data encryption.

RESEARCH

Background of the problem
• Outsourcing various sensitive data to various remote services is an issue
• Cloud service providers might access the data that belongs to an organization.
• Encryption of data has been chosen as the most reliable way to prevent the issues.
• Various researchers have mentioned that data that is not encrypted ha s high
chances to get accessed by hackers.

Literature review showing the
relationship to previous works
• Researchers have introduced various ways along with completely-homomorphic encryption.
• The methods are not considered as practical because of their high computational overhead
for cloud server as well as user (Varghese & Buyya, 2018).
• More practical as well as special purpose of solution like searchable encryption had been
introduced.
• The schemes allow the clients to store encrypted data in cloud and carry out keyword
search.

Research question
• How cloud platform can be used by organizations?
• Is encryption enough for securing data?
• How can organizations use encryption techniques for securing confidential data?

Significance of the problem
• This problems gives an idea on how cloud computing can be used for the purpose of
storing data.
• It provides data regarding how encryption can be done in order to secure data.
• It provides data regarding why organizations must not trust cloud service providers
blindly (Dembla, Flack & Petter, 2015).
• Provides a clear understanding on how cryptography can be used for the purpose of
encryption of data.

Aims of the research
• Aims in designing a searchable encryption scheme which would support precise
multi keyword ranked search as well as flexible dynamic operation on collection of
documents.
• Give a detailed knowledge regarding the encryption techniques used for securing
data (Varghese & Buyya, 2018).
• Provide detailed knowledge on how data can be secured in an organization.

Contribution
• Our contribution in this particular assignment is to carry out research and record
the results obtained from it.
• Various research methods had been reviewed and the most reliable ones have been
selected (Dembla, Flack & Petter, 2015).
• The qualitative as well as quantitative research methodology has been reviewed
and the one that has chances to produce more results has been selected.

Research strategy, approach and
methodology
• The research strategy that would be used for the purpose of carrying out this
research includes primary as well as secondary research strategy.
• Primary research would help in carrying out a real life research by interviewing
people and collecting data from them (Dembla, Flack & Petter, 2015).
• Secondary research would be carried out by reviewing the data collected from
secondary sources.
• Methodologies that would be used include qualitative as well as quantitative.

Data gathering and analysis
techniques
• Interviews
• Questionnaires
• Surveys
• Observations
• Focus group
• Ethnography
• Oral history and case study
• Documents and records

Rigor, validity, reliability and
ethics
• Reliability and validity includes issues that has been pointed out by quantitative
researchers and advocates.
• This research would ensure quality as well as rigour.
• It would also apply various ethical principles (Dembla, Flack & Petter, 2015).
• It ensures that principles of any individual is not harmed.

Research schedule/timeline

References
• Dembla, P., Flack, C., & Petter, S. (2015). Extending the DeLone and McLean IS
Success Model to Cloud Computing.
• Varghese, B., & Buyya, R. (2018). Next generation cloud computing: New trends and
research directions. Future Generation Computer Systems, 79, 849-861.