WiP: a novel blockchain-based trust model for cloud identity management

Keltoum Bendiab, Nicholas Kolokotronis, Stavros Shiaeles, Samia Boucherkha

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Abstract

Secure and reliable management of identities has become one of the greatest challenges facing cloud computing today, mainly due to the huge number of new cloud-based applications generated by this model, which means more user accounts, passwords, and personal information to provision, monitor, and secure. Currently, identity federation is the most useful solution to overcome the aforementioned issues and simplify the user experience by allowing efficient authentication mechanisms and use of identity information from data distributed across multiple domains. However, this approach creates considerable complexity in managing trust relationships for both the cloud service providers and their clients. Poor management of trust in federated identity management systems brings with it many security, privacy and interoperability issues, which contributes to the reluctance of organizations to move their critical identity data to the cloud. In this paper, we aim to address these issues by introducing a novel trust and identity management model based on the Blockchain for cloud identity management with security and privacy improvements.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2018 IEEE 16th Intl Conf on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, 16th Intl Conf on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, 4th Intl Conf on Big Data Intelligence and Computing and Cyber Science and Technology Congress(DASC/PiCom/DataCom/CyberSciTech)
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages716-723
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-5386-7518-2
ISBN (Print)978-1-5386-7519-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 Oct 2018
Event16th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, IEEE 16th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, IEEE 4th International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing and IEEE 3rd Cyber Science and Technology Congress, DASC-PICom-DataCom-CyberSciTec 2018 - Athens, Greece
Duration: 12 Aug 201815 Aug 2018

Conference

Conference16th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, IEEE 16th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, IEEE 4th International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing and IEEE 3rd Cyber Science and Technology Congress, DASC-PICom-DataCom-CyberSciTec 2018
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityAthens
Period12/08/1815/08/18

Keywords

  • Blockchain
  • Cloud computing
  • Identity management
  • Security
  • Trust management.
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