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Mitigating Cloud Security Threats Using Public-Key Infrastructure

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Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 729))

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Cloud computing is a very huge entity, as a technology, in recent era, evolving at a very rapid pace. There is a wide progress from mainframe computers toward the client/server infrastructures, including cloud computing deployment models with rudiments from autonomic computing, grid computing, and utility computing. This transition has brought tremendous effects on areas of information security and communications. These effects are majorly viewed positively, but there are some critical issues to be concerned. Due to this major transition toward cloud, various risks and challenges, identified and unidentified, have been discovered weakening the traditional security approaches. For this reason, that paper is aimed twofold: First to evaluate the requirements for cloud security and second is to propose a viable solution which would eradicate major potential threats. The model introduced in this paper will help to demolish network-related threats that arise due to trusted third party. The proposed solution will also enhance cryptography with Public-Key Infrastructure and helps in mitigating security threats. The solution presents a broad way of trusting services that realizes any security threats.

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  1. Faculty of Computer Applications, Marwadi Education Foundation’s Group of Institutions, Rajkot, Gujarat, India

    Disha H. Parekh & R. Sridaran

  2. Computer Science Department, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India

    Disha H. Parekh

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India

    M. U. Bokhari

  2. National Institute of Financial Management, Faridabad, Haryana, India

    Namrata Agrawal

  3. Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering (BVCOE), New Delhi, India

    Dharmendra Saini

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Parekh, D.H., Sridaran, R. (2018). Mitigating Cloud Security Threats Using Public-Key Infrastructure. In: Bokhari, M., Agrawal, N., Saini, D. (eds) Cyber Security. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 729. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8536-9_17

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