A Novel Approach for Data Storage Security in a Hosted Environment

Abstract

The introduction of hosted environments to computing has brought a lot of change in the industry. With the advent of Infrastructure-as-a-Service, the concept of renting data stores is catching up. Security for the data in a hosted environment is an alarming issue. The paper focuses on cloud data storage security. We propose a security model to maintain the data store. This model ensures the safety of data in the hosted environment. By utilizing the homomorphic token with random masking the model achieves the abstraction of data stored on the Hosted Environment.