Title
Privacy-preserving cloud computing on sensitive data: A survey of methods, products and challenges
Abstract
The increasing volume of personal and sensitive data being harvested by data controllers makes it increasingly necessary to use the cloud not just to store the data, but also to process them on cloud premises. However, security concerns on frequent data breaches, together with recently upgraded legal data protection requirements (like the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation), advise against outsourcing unprotected sensitive data to public clouds. To tackle this issue, this survey covers technologies that allow privacy-aware outsourcing of storage and processing of sensitive data to public clouds. Specifically and as a novelty, we review masking methods for outsourced data based on data splitting and anonymization, in addition to cryptographic methods covered in other surveys. We then compare these methods in terms of operations supported on the masked outsourced data, overhead, accuracy preservation, and impact on data management. Furthermore, we list several research projects and available products that have materialized some of the surveyed solutions. Finally, we identify outstanding research challenges.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.comcom.2019.04.011
Computer Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Privacy,Data confidentiality,Public clouds,Sensitive data,Cloud computing
Computer security,Cryptography,Computer science,Computer network,Outsourcing,Data breach,Data Protection Act 1998,Data management,General Data Protection Regulation,Cloud computing,European union
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
140
0140-3664
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Josep Domingo16712.25
Oriol Farràs219715.52
Jordi Ribes-González361.53
David Sánchez469033.01