Abstract
The information security domain focuses on security needs at all levels in a computing environment in either the Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, Cloud of Things, or any other implementation. Data, devices, services, or applications and communication are required to be protected and provided by information security shields at all levels and in all working states. Remote authentication is required to perform different administrative operations in an information system, and Administrators have full access to the system and may pose insider threats. Superusers and administrators are the most trusted persons in an organisation. “Trust but verify” is an approach to have an eye on the superusers and administrators. Distributed ledger technology (Blockchain-based data storage) is an immutable data storage scheme and provides a built-in facility to share statistics among peers. Distributed ledgers are proposed to provide visible security and non-repudiation, which securely records administrators’ authentications requests. The presence of security, privacy, and accountability measures establish trust among its stakeholders. Securing information in an electronic data processing system is challenging, i.e., providing services and access control for the resources to only legitimate users. Authentication plays a vital role in systems’ security; therefore, authentication and identity management are the key subjects to provide information security services. The leading cause of information security breaches is the failure of identity management/authentication systems and insider threats. In this regard, visible security measures have more deterrence than other schemes. In this paper, an authentication scheme, “VisTAS,” has been introduced, which provides visible security and trusted authentication services to the tenants and keeps the records in the blockchain.
Highlights
Authentication plays a vital role and depends on the prominence and significance of assets or resources that are being secured
The effectiveness and workload of any framework or scheme can be obtained by monitoring the server on multiple parameters, especially the usage of processing power, IO activities, random access memory, network utilization, swap memory, and context switching
We focused on monitoring only necessary performance matrices like CPU usage, memory usage, I/O load, swap memory usage, context switching, process queue, and network traffic only
Summary
Authentication plays a vital role and depends on the prominence and significance of assets or resources that are being secured. This principle includes physical features at the hardware level to restrict and safeguard the device from cloning issues Another strategy for the user or device authentication is dongle-based paired computers. Multiple mission-critical applications have implemented blockchain-based secure data delivery and storage as discussed by Bera et al (2020) and Ali et al (2021). Though different types and factors-based authentication schemes have been proposed, as summarised, all of them have limitations to provide supervised authentication, peer control, visible access, storage of immutable login information, and deterrence. Though different types and factors based authentication schemes are present, as discussed earlier but all of them failed to provide supervised authentication, peer control, visible access, and deterrence (Homoliak et al, 2019). SWOT analysis containing Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, a summary of results and discussion of the proposed model have been covered in “Swot Analysis”, and the paper is concluded in “Conclusion and Future Work”
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