Title
Identity-as-a-Service: An Adaptive Security Infrastructure and Privacy-Preserving User Identity for the Cloud Environment
Abstract
In recent years, enterprise applications have begun to migrate from a local hosting to a cloud provider and may have established a business-to-business relationship with each other manually. Adaptation of existing applications requires substantial implementation changes in individual architectural components. On the other hand, users may store their Personal Identifiable Information (PII) in the cloud environment so that cloud services may access and use it on demand. Even if cloud services specify their privacy policies, we cannot guarantee that they follow their policies and will not (accidentally) transfer PII to another party. In this paper, we present Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) as a trusted Identity and Access Management with two requirements: Firstly, IDaaS adapts trust between cloud services on demand. We move the trust relationship and identity propagation out of the application implementation and model them as a security topology. When the business comes up with a new e-commerce scenario, IDaaS uses the security topology to adapt a platform-specific security infrastructure for the given business scenario at runtime. Secondly, we protect the confidentiality of PII in federated security domains. We propose our Purpose-based Encryption to protect the disclosure of PII from intermediary entities in a business transaction and from untrusted hosts. Our solution is compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation and involves the least user interaction to prevent identity theft via the human link. The implementation can be easily adapted to existing Identity Management systems, and the performance is fast.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/fi11050116
FUTURE INTERNET
Keywords
Field
DocType
identity-as-a-service,federated identity management,privacy-preserving,purpose-based encryption,purpose-based access control,attribute-based encryption,cloud adaptation,cloud migration
Computer science,Computer security,Privacy policy,Attribute-based encryption,Identity theft,Computer network,Identity management,Encryption,Personally identifiable information,General Data Protection Regulation,Cloud computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
11
5
1999-5903
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tri Hoang Vo100.34
Woldemar F. Fuhrmann2277.21
Klaus-Peter Fischer-Hellmann300.34
Steven M. Furnell41002104.31