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International Journal of Research Publication and Reviews

Issues and Challenges in Data Integrity and Data Storage Security in

Miss. Ankita Singh1, Mr. Vedant Naidu1, Prof. Deepali Shah2

ABSTRACT-

Cloud Computing is providing service like servers, database management, data storage, networking, software applications, etc. to the client on demand. Data
storage is one of the most widely used service provided by cloud computing. Cloud service provider hosts the data of the owner on their server, and it can be
accessed by the owner from these servers whenever they want. As owners and servers are different identities, the paradigm of data storage brings up many securi-
ty challenges. An independent mechanism is required to make sure that data is correctly hosted in to the cloud storage server. In this paper we will discuss about
the integrity of data stored, challenges faced to secure the data and techniques used to secure data storage in cloud.

Keyword: Cloud Computing, Data integrity (DI), Cloud Security and Data Security

Introduction

Cloud Computing in delivery of computing services to individuals and businesses over the internet. Cloud services allow them to utilize system soft-
ware and hardware that are managed by the cloud providers and allow them to access them anywhere, anytime through internet. Examples of cloud
services contain online file storage, webmail, social networking sites, online business applications. Many companies, organizations as well small entre-
preneurs are moving into cloud because it provides great services in cheap rate and it is reliable as well. Cloud providers provide only that amount of
services that user has asked and charges only for that. Because of services provided by cloud the user do not have to install their own hardware and
software and servers as well. It saves energy and money of the users. However big responsibility comes with bigger risks, Data breaching is possible in
cloud environment since data from various users and organizations lie together in cloud. As the user not only sends data to the cloud but also transfers
controls to a third person which may raise concern about its security. The major task of CSP (Cloud Service Provider) is to preserve the confidentiality,
integrity, and availability of data to the users. But sometimes the CSP itself may use or corrupt the data illegally. However, to overcome this the user
simply can encrypt the data before uploading it onto the cloud. This will make sure that the data uploaded is not visible to external users or the cloud
administrator. However, it has limitations too that plain text-based searching algorithm are not applicable. In this paper, we discuss the security algo-
rithms that can be used to keep the data secure and maintain its integrity.There have been arguments between police departments and some members of
the public regarding the use of the device on both technical and constitutional perspectives. Therefore, this paper discusses the topic to establish the best
course that should take to end dissatisfaction from the public and ensure road safety.

Literature Review

Cloud computing is “an old idea whose time has (finally) come” [2]. The term cloud is old since it was drawn in network diagrams as a metaphor
representing the Internet [4]. Cloud computing is generally referred to as providing “Internet-based computing service” [2]; however, the technical
meaning is richer, as cloud compu- ting builds on already-existing computing technologies, such as grid computing and virtualization, which are forms
of distributed computing technology [9]. Virtualization involves masking the physical characteristics of computing resources to hide the complexity
when systems, applications, or end users interact with them. Grid computing is “a model of distributed computing that uses geographically and admin
stratify distant resources, and, thus, users can access computers and data transparently without concern about location, operating system, and account
administration”. With the advent of cloud computing, the merits of virtualization and grid com-putting have been combined and further improved.
Cloud computing shares some characteristics with virtualization and grid computing; however, it still has its own distinguishing characteristics as well
as associated risks
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Problem Definition

The main concern is to protect security against unauthorized access of data. Data relocation on high level has negative implications for protecting the
data safety and data security as well as data accessibility. Therefore, the main apprehension with reference to safety of data residing within the Cloud is:
at the remainder how to safe security and avoid authorization. Even though, customers understand the situation and no data mobility access, question
with reference to security and confidentiality of data. The Cloud Computing area has no confusion become larger as a result of its accessibility and
wide network access. However, we can also believe in terms of a secure and safe atmosphere for the personal data and information of the user is being
needed

Objective

Cloud Computing allows the users to store their data on the storage location maintained by a thirdparty. Once the data is uploaded into the cloud the
user loses its control over the data and the data can be tampered by the attackers. The attacker may be an internal(CSP) or external. Unauthorized ac-
cess is also a common practice due to weak access control. The protection of information arises the following challenges: The security and privacy
issues related to data storage are confidentiality, integrity and availability.The cloud computing of the security elements is detailed about Data Integrity,
Data confidentiality, Data availability, and Data privacy. In this paper explain the detail explanation about security elements of cloud computing as
given below.

Research Methodology

Data integrity is considered one of the most critical security elements in several information systems. In general, data integrity means that protecting
data from unauthorized modification process, fabrication or deletion. Managing entity’s rights and access to specific enterprise resources ensures that
important data and services are not abused, illegal access, or stolen. Data integrity is definitely achieved in a standalone system with a single database.
Data-integrity in the standalone system is maintained through database transactions and constraints, which is frequently finished by a database man-
agement system (DBMS). Transactions ought to follow ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability) properties to ensure data integrity. The
majorities of databases are to support ACID transactions and can protect data integrity. Data integrity in the cloud system means that protecting infor-
mation integrity. The data should not be modified or lost or by unauthorized users’ access. Data integrity is the basis to give cloud computing service
like SaaS PaaS, and IaaS. Moreover, data storage of large scaled data, cloud computing environment typically provides data processing service. Data
integrity can be obtained by using these techniques like digital signature and RAID-like strategies.
Data Confidentiality: - Data confidentiality is very important for users to store their confidential data or private information within the cloud services.
In data confidentiality is used to ensure authentication and access control strategies. The data confidentiality, authentication and access control prob-
lems are mainly to protect in cloud computing might be self- addressed by improving the cloud reliability and trustiness [8]. As a result of the users
don't trust thecloud providers and cloud storage service providers. These are virtually not possible to eliminate potential corporate executive threat; it is
terribly dangerous for users to store and protect their sensitive data in cloud storage directly. The simple encryption process is faced with the key type
management drawback and cannot support the advanced requirements like parallel modification, query, and fine-grained authorization. The cloud
computing have several techniques for enhancing and developing data confidentiality.
1. Homomorphic encryption: encryption is typically used to make sure the data confidentiality. Homomorphic encryption is a kind of encryption system
to authority of the data.
2.Encrypted Search and Database: Because the homomorphic encryption algorithm is ineffective. The homomorphic encryption algorithm is the study
of the applications of limited within the cloud environment researchers. Encrypted search is a general operation to protect data from unauthorized
resources. 3. Distributed Storage: In the Distributive storage of data is also a promising approach in the cloud environment. 4. Hybrid Technique. A
hybrid technique is projected for ensuring data integrity and data confidentiality, which uses both key sharing technique and authentication technique.
5. Data Concealment. Data concealment is mainly used to maintain the data confidentiality in the cloud. Data Availability: -Data availability mean that
the following: when accidents occur like hard disk damage, IDC fire, electronic circuit failure, and network failures, the coverage that user’s data are
often recovered or utilized and how the users verify their data by techniques rather than depending on the credit guarantee by the cloud service provider
alone. The transborder servers under the main issue of storing data is detail about a serious concern of clients for the reason that the cloud vendors
are governed by the local laws and, as a result, the cloud
clients must be cognizant of these laws. In addition, the cloud service provider should make sure the data security, notably data confidentiality and data
integrity. The cloud provider should share and protect all such concerns with the client and establish trust relationship with this connection establish-
ment. The cloud marketer ought to give guarantees of data safety and build a case for jurisdiction of native laws to the client’s process management.
Establishing data connection can support users to extend their trust relationship on the cloud. Cloud storage affords the transparent storage service for
performing with users, which can reduce the cloud complexity, however, it also reduces the control ability of data storage of users.
Limitation
•Enterprises observe different obstacles when they move their IT infrastructure into the clouds. SMEs can sacrifice the sufferings of these ob-
stacles to some extent, since adopting cloud would be a cheaper solution compared to the cost of running an individual IT infrastructure. A perfect
trade-off between costs and benefits can help SMEs to make proper judgment of adopting cloud computing [5]. In this section, we analyse all
the potential problems that delay the adoption cloud computing for some of the SMEs and the large enterprises.
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Conclusion

Cloud computing proves an extremely successful application for each and every organization's performance. For the reason that organizations have
large amount of data to store and cloud provides that space given to user and also enables its user to access their data from anyplace anytime in a simple
manner. Improved use of cloud computing for storing data is definitely increasing the trend of improving the ways
of storing data in the cloud. As peoples are saving their personal information and important data to clouds, therefore it becomes a major issue to store
that data safely. Data available in the cloud can be at risk if not protected in a trustful manner. In the cloud there are a number of existing techniques
used to implement security prevention. The study provided an overview and discuss about the cloud computing and security issues and how to improve
the security algorithms for cloud computing.

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