SafeCloud: Secure and Resilient Cloud Architecture
| Project responsable |
Hugues Mercier
Pascal Felber |
| Team member |
Valerio Schiavoni
Nathalie Tissot Yves Bauer |
| Abstract |
Cloud infrastructures, despite all their advantages and importance
to the competitiveness of modern economies, raise fundamental
questions related to the privacy, integrity, and security of
offsite data storage and processing tasks. These questions are
currently not answered satisfactorily by existing technologies.
Furthermore, recent developments in the wake of the expansive and
sometimes unauthorised government access to private and sensitive
data raise major privacy and security concerns about data located
in the cloud, especially when data is physically located,
processed, or must transit outside the legal jurisdiction of its
rightful owner. This is exacerbated by providers of cloud services
that frequently move and process data without notice in ways that
are detrimental to the users and their privacy. SafeCloud will re-architect cloud infrastructures to ensure that data transmission, storage, and processing can be (1) partitioned in multiple administrative domains that are unlikely to collude, so that sensitive data can be protected by design; (2) entangled with inter-dependencies that make it impossible for any of the domains to tamper with its integrity. These two principles (partitioning and entanglement) are thus applied holistically across the entire data management stack, from communication to storage and processing. Users will control the choice of non-colluding domains for partitioning and the tradeoffs between entanglement and performance, and thus will have full control over what happens to their data. This will make users less reluctant to manage their personal data online due to privacy concerns and will generate important benefits for privacy-sensitive online applications such as distributed cloud infrastructures and medical record storage platforms. |
| Keywords |
Security, Privacy, Cloud Computing, Data Storage and Management, Integrity, Availability |
| Project homepage | http://www.safecloud-project.eu |
| Type of project | Fundamental research project |
| Research area | Informatique |
| Method of financing | Horizon 2020 - Research and Innovation Framework Programme |
| Status | Completed |
| Start of project | 1-9-2015 |
| End of project | 31-8-2018 |
| Overall budget | €814'000.00 |
| Additional info |
The scientific and technical direction of the project is done by
UniNE. The consortium partners are Cloud&Heat (Germany),
Cybernetica (Estonia), INESC-ID (Portugal), INESC TEC (Coordinator, Portugal), Maxdata Software (Portugal), Technische Universität München (Germany), and Université de Neuchâtel (Scientific and technical direction, Switzerland). |
| Contact | Hugues Mercier |