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?