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Title: Comprehensive Cybersecurity Framework: Integrating

Encryption, Access Control, Threat Detection, and Risk Management

Abstract

This paper presents an integrated cybersecurity framework encompassing

encryption, access control mechanisms, threat detection and response
strategies, vulnerabilities, and risk management. By examining current
methodologies and emerging technologies, the paper aims to provide a
holistic approach to safeguarding digital infrastructures against evolving
cyber threats.

1. Introduction

The rapid advancement of digital technologies has significantly increased the

complexity and volume of cyber threats. Traditional security measures are
often insufficient to address the multifaceted nature of modern cyber risks.
This paper explores the essential components of a robust cybersecurity
strategy, focusing on encryption, access control, threat detection, and risk
management.

2. Encryption: Ensuring Data Confidentiality

Encryption serves as a fundamental mechanism to protect data

confidentiality and integrity. Symmetric and asymmetric encryption
algorithms, such as AES and RSA, are widely utilized to secure data at rest
and in transit. However, the emergence of quantum computing poses
potential challenges to current encryption standards, necessitating the
development of quantum-resistant algorithms.

3. Access Control Mechanisms: Regulating User Permissions

Effective access control ensures that only authorized individuals can access
specific resources within a system. Models like Role-Based Access Control
(RBAC) and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) are commonly
implemented to enforce security policies. The integration of Artificial
Intelligence (AI) has further enhanced access control systems by enabling
dynamic decision-making based on contextual information. Mendeley

4. Threat Detection and Response: Identifying and Mitigating

Attacks

Modern threat detection systems employ machine learning and behavioral

analytics to identify anomalies and potential security breaches. Real-time
monitoring and automated response mechanisms are crucial for minimizing
the impact of cyberattacks. Intelligent risk-based authentication systems
leverage big data and machine learning to provide adaptive security
measures.

5. Vulnerabilities: Identifying System Weaknesses

Vulnerabilities within software and hardware components can be exploited by

attackers to gain unauthorized access or cause system disruptions. Regular
vulnerability assessments and penetration testing are essential practices to
identify and mitigate potential security gaps. The integration of hardware-
software co-protection strategies has been proposed to address complex
security threats. Cryptology ePrint Archive

6. Risk Management: Assessing and Mitigating Cyber Risks

A comprehensive risk management approach involves identifying, assessing,

and prioritizing risks to implement appropriate mitigation strategies.
Automated threat detection systems have demonstrated high accuracy
rates, and AI-driven risk analysis frameworks have shown significant
improvements in prediction accuracy. Implementing zero-trust architectures
has been associated with substantial reductions in breach costs. IAEME

7. Conclusion
Integrating encryption, access control, threat detection, and risk
management forms a cohesive cybersecurity strategy capable of addressing
the dynamic nature of cyber threats. Continuous advancements in
technology and methodologies are essential to maintain the effectiveness of
cybersecurity measures.

References

1. S. Prasad Ponnuru, "Comprehensive Risk Management in IT

Infrastructure: Analyzing Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Mitigation
Strategies," International Journal of Computer Engineering and
Technology, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 364-380, Nov. 2024. [Online]. Available:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14140236.IAEME

2. Priscila S et al., "Risk-Based Access Control Mechanism for Internet of

Vehicles Using Artificial Intelligence," Security and Communication
Networks, 2022. [Online]. Available:
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850e0e69ff6c/.Mendeley

3. "Enhanced Security Through Intelligent Risk-Based Authentication:

Leveraging Big Data and Machine Learning for Real-Time Threat
Mitigation," IEEE Conference Publication, 2025. [Online]. Available:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10753250/.

4. Md Habibur Rahman, "A Comprehensive Survey on Hardware-Software

co-Protection against Invasive, Non-Invasive and Interactive Security
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5. "Cybersecurity Risks and Data Privacy Tradeoffs," IEEE Digital Privacy,

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CLOUD STORAGE MECHANISM: CHALLENGES AND ITS SOLUTIONS Article in
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SURVEY OF SECURE CLOUD STORAGE MECHANISM: CHALLENGES AND ITS
SOLUTIONS Banoth Anantharam Research Scholar, Department of Computer
Science and Engineering, Sri Satya Sai University of Technology & Medical
Sciences, Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India. Assistant Professor, Department of
Computer Science and Engineering, Keshav Memorial Institute of Technology,
Narayanaguda, Telangana, India. ABSTRACT Cloud storage has been a boon
for many organizations and the individuals as it reduces the burden of safety
and security of their data, in addition to minimizing the investment for
infrastructure. Every cloud service provider offers not only the storage
service but it also extends to preserve the data privacy and security. The
inherent mechanism that many cloud service providers implement is n-
backup by which the client is guaranteed for data recovery in the case when
the original copy of data is damaged or lost. However, for each of the backup
copy, it is evident that more storage space is required. In this digital big data
era, industry is experiencing the data explosion hence more space and
infrastructure would become a necessary need for the service providers. In
this paper, a study is conducted on various cloud storage mechanisms,
challenges and identified the gaps. Finally, possible solutions are mentioned
which is a need for the present cloud storage scenario. Key words: cloud
computing, cloud storage, data centre, storage mechanisms, storage backup.
Cite this Article: Banoth Anantharam, A Survey of Secure Cloud Storage
Mechanism: Challenges and its Solutions, International Journal of Advanced
Research in Engineering and Technology, 12(1), 2021, pp. 354-361.
http://www.iaeme.com/IJARET/issues.asp?JType=IJARET&VType=12&IType=1
1. INTRODUCTION The fundamental concept of Cloud Computing to perform
the user tasks in distributed, parallel mode by using appropriate technologies
through which the tasks can be completed at a faster pace. In the cloud
computing paradigms, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) plays a major role
with the storage component. To offer more robust storage mechanisms,
cloud storage providers offer n-backup mechanism. The mechanism involves
number of backup copies for an original copy of data range from two to
three. The main objective of offering such n-backup mechanism is to create
the fault-tolerance and resilience for the applications as well as the owners of
the data. Apparently, the cloud storage can be used for various purposes
such as backup and recovery, software test and development, cloud data
migration, building big data and data lakes, etc. Moreover, cloud storage
requirements are availability, data integrity and security. Considering the
artefacts of the cloud storage, Figure. 1, Figure 1. Architecture of Cloud
Storage the user would get benefitted to the maximum extent in the context
of the reducing the resources needed to store the data, deploy the system
and maintain the data. 2. PROBLEM STATEMENT The work proposed in this
paper if for an optimized and secured storage solution, for the cloud storage
service providers, which shall reduce the burden on the storage systems.
From the Figure 2 it can be observed that while storing the data in the cloud,
the system experience following issues: 2.1. Load on Storage System In case
of the small-sized objects maintaining extra copies doesn’t create much
storage load on the cloud storage servers, but if the objects are larger in size
then the data redundancy creates an exponential growth in the requirement
for cloud storage resources which not only increases the cost of maintenance
but also consumes lot of physical space required to implement the cloud
storage servers. Though the cloud service providers have projected the
reason of cooling the system but dearth of space on earth is also a potential
reason to setting up the cloud system in the ocean such Microsoft did it in
the Pacific Ocean. 2.2. Load on Networking Resources Two types of network
resources are required while the data has to be stored in the cloud storage:
data generated by the external system, and the data generated in the cloud
application. If the data is generated in the external system to be stored in
the cloud storage then the operation requires two kinds of networking
resources: user network-to-cloud network, cloud network-to- cloud network.
If the data is generated in the cloud application then user-level networking
resource is not needed whilst internal cloud network itself is sufficient.
However, in both the scenarios, much of the load that is generated in the
internal cloud network would be tripled for every chunk of the data to be
stored. Figure 2. Storage Engine Services adopted by Dell-EMC for Elastic
Compute Service (ECS) 2.3. Load on Storage-Connected Computational
Resources For every object to be stored in the cloud it needs to compute the
amount of storage required for the object vs the availability of storage
devices. At the same time, the computation time is also tripled for every
object to find the three storage units, one for the original file and two others
for backup in the context of future recovery which is the part of the definition
of the cloud. 3. LITERATURE REVIEW Generally, large-scale data centres
implement remote backups for the improvement of system reliability for
achieving the efficient fault tolerance. But considering the distance of the
remote locations which result into transmission cost, Yu Hua et.al. [1] have
et.al. have proposed a cost- efficient method for remote backup services in
the context of Enterprise Clouds, called Neptune. As part of the work, the
authors have developed a filtration scheme to transmit the data to the long-
distance data centers by eliminating the redundancy. The reduction of
redundancy is achieved by incorporating the method of compressing the
similarity of files. It further incorporates deduplication at chunk-level and
uses delta-compression for compressing the files. In order to reduce the
overheads and complexity, Neptune makes use of locality-aware hashing for
grouping the similar files and suggests shortcut delta chains for fast remote
recovery. Before developing any solution for the cloud storage technology, it
is inevitable to understand the architectures that are implemented
successfully for in the existing scenario. Yuhuan Qiu et.al. [2] have presented
concepts and architecture models that are implemented for the cloud
storage in most of the cloud solutions. In the process the authors have
presented the features and advantages of which space leasing, reducing the
management difficulty, data replication and backup, scalability are elevated
to be the most prominent and important. The types of cloud systems vary
with the need and the customer orientation such as individual-level storage
requirement to industry-level storage requirement. Hence, depending upon
on the scale of requirements, and the context for which the storage solution
is designed. iCloud, Baidu cloud disk have been discussed along with the
issues like broadband bottlenecks, infrastructure, security and availability.
When the services are offered by the cloud service providers include
Infrastructure-as-a- service then they have to concentrate more on number
of components for IaaS’s functionality. Additionally, the functionality has to
be in accordance with huge system duplication of components but it
increases the cost of maintainability and operability. S.R.Ali [3] have
analysed the cloud computing reliability in the context of unified
infrastructure and proposed the methods to implement it a reduced cost. The
solution should also provide the operator that consists of computing
elasticity which helps the functionalities to grow or de-grow the cloud based
on services on-demand. Because the clouds are located at various
geographical locations, Single Point-of-Failure (SPOF) can be considerably
reduced. As part of the analysis server virtualization has been studied in the
context of hypervisors, various virtual states, transition states for which
Virtual Machine Markov model has been studied. Apart from them, VM
recovery mechanisms, cloud failover, container virtualization, and reliability
analysis of VoIP in cloud environment have been discussed. Zhang et.al. [4]
have designed and implemented data backup and recovery system with
security enhancements which mainly focuses on mainly focus on the
availability including the confidentiality in the backup operation as well as
recovery operation. The work has considered various modules in the
architecture of the system such as backup module, recovery module,
network communication module, logging and transmission module, task
management module which exist at the upper layers of the architecture. The
key module i.e., security enhancement module, consists of various modules
such as identity authentication, operation approval, account system, log
audit, data protection, backup data management, and policy management.
The system communication has been defined for the communication
between client, web console and the backup and recovery server. Through
their work the authors suggest that when user authentication is
strengthened, verification of the legitimacy between the data and target
computer, the process control during business operations and the audit of
the key operation, the system can prevent administrators from backing up
data to illegal disk and recovering backed up data to illegal target machine
and other similar risk of data leakage. To achieve the budget association and
savings, efficiency of government agencies’ business-processes, one of the
mechanisms is to implement a new information model which is migration-
based for the benefit of cloud computing, ICT-outsourcing and consolidating
the orders. The key requirements were proposed by Aubakirov et.al. [5] to
support the open standards for storage and distribution of virtual machines;
Logical partitioning of resources pools provided by virtualization platform on
virtual computing data centers with fixed service quality; solutions on
provision of network safety, etc. In the process the authors have defined
various subsystems such as services, resources virtualization, computing
platform, data transfer, data storage, communication, data centers,
management and monitoring, information safety, backup and recovery, and
technical assistance. The authors have observed that the computing
capacities’ efficiency per kilowatt-hour will increase, which in-turn will lead to
the increase in environmental friendliness of government agencies
performance. In the work submitted by Odun-Ayo et.al. [6] have presented
various aspects involved with data storage in cloud computing. The authors
have perceived the key issues that are part of cloud storage services are
deployment, virtualization and availability, data organization, data migration
and load balancing, data deduplication, and security. Furthermore, they have
listed the security concerns such as data privacy and integrity, data recovery
and vulnerability, improper media sanitization, data backup, and data
outage. In the process of exploring the key features the work has included
the comparison of IBM cloud object storage vs Amazon S3 for which
single/multi-tenancy options, deployment options, customization and control,
and API support were compared. The results of the comparison has resulted
to diversity in which IBM cloud object storage has produced better
throughput than Amazon S3, while read and write latencies were much lower
than S3. Outsourcing of matrix multiplications tasks at a larger scale to many
distributed servers or cloud is necessary to increase the speed of
computation. But security is a serious concern when these servers are not
trustworthy. Chang et.al. [7] have studied the problem of secured and
distributed version of matrix multiplication from the view point of servers
which are not trustworthy over distributed servers. This issue is categorized
to be part of secure function computation and has established substantial
attention in the cryptography community. But, portraying the essential
bounds of information-theoretically secure matrix multiplication still remains
as an open issue. Their focus was on information-theoretically secure
distributed matrix multiplication with an objective of portraying the minimum
communication overhead. The ability of secure matrix multiplication was
defined as “the maximum possible ratio of the desired information and the
total communication received from N distributed servers”. After the
investigation of single-sided and fully secure matrix multiplication issues the
authors have proposed a scheme based on secret sharing for the single-
sided secure matrix multiplication model. Furthermore, two interesting open
problems have been proposed: find a converse (upper bound), for a fully
secure matrix multiplication issue; and generalizing these ideas for other
secure distributed computation tasks. Security and privacy are the most
critical issues that need to be addressed in designing a computing
environment that is reliable and trustworthy. Tariqul et.al. [8] have classified
and characterized the various security and privacy challenges associated
with cloud computing. In the process they have conducted a survey on three
well-known cloud security frameworks namely ENISA, CSA, and NIST that aim
to provide a compilation of risks, vulnerabilities and also the best practices to
resolve them. These three entities provide a comprehensive overview of the
current security, privacy, and trust issues, and thus, help in understanding
the current status of Cloud security. They have also presented a variety of
security and privacy concerns associated with Cloud Computing, identified
major threats and vulnerabilities, and classified them into six categories:
Network Security, Virtualization and Hypervisor Security, Identity and Access
Management, Data and Storage Security, Governance, and Legal and
Compliance issues. Each of these categories identified several threats and
vulnerabilities, resulting in further classification. The authors have observed
that it is evident that for the wide spread adoption of the cloud, these issues
must be addressed thoroughly. Therefore, enrichment of the existing solution
techniques as well as more innovative approaches need to mitigate these
problems are needed. The latest technological developments have ignited
the popularity and success of the cloud. Since it provides cost-efficient
architectures that provide the transmission, storage, and exhaustive
computing of data, this new paradigm is gaining an increasing interest.
Kaaniche et.al. [9] have conducted an exhaustive study to deliver a
consistent assessment about both data security concerns and privacy issues
that are faced by clients in cloud storage environments. This work brings a
critical relative analysis of cryptographic defense methods. Apart from this,
their work has explored research directions in addition to the technology
trends to report the protection of outsourced data in cloud infrastructures.
The foundation for the their work is that the storage services carry a good
number of challenging design issues, significantly because of both loss of
abstract nature of clouds and data control. The authors are in a perception
that there exists no cryptographic mechanism that can be installed to
guarantee privacy of users, for the settings in data sharing. In the process it
was also found that Fully Homomorphic encryption was a proven method as
unable to implement privacy demands of the common cloud services. It is
also observed that the schemes of FHE cannot be completely private due to
their inability to support circuit complication. Therefore, it has been deduced
that computations over muti- client inputs needs reliable hardware. Following
this approach, it is assured that Secure Multiparty Computation (SMC) can be
capable resolution to privacy-preserving processing. In general, SMC
mechanisms permit quite a lot of clients to collaboratively exicute any
function, over private inputs. This makes the distribution of trust to be
possible across many entities. One of the potential issues in privacy and
security is stimulated by the fact of likelihood that cloud operators can
access the user’s sensitive data. This concern intensely rises users’
apprehension and decreases the adoptability of cloud computing in many of
the industries, such as the governmental agencies and financial industry. The
work proposed by Yibin Li et.al. [10] has focused on this issue and proposed
an approach namely, intelligent cryptography by which the cloud service
operators would not be able to directly reach partial data. Their approach
splits the file and stores the data separately in the cloud servers which are
distributed across various locations. They have designed an alternative
approach for determining whether the data packets require a split to
condense the operation time. They have named the proposed scheme as
Security-Aware Efficient Distributed Storage (SA-EDS) model, which are
supported by their algorithms. These algorithms include: Efficient Data
Conflation (EDCon) Algorithm, Secure Efficient Data Distributions (SED2)
Algorithm and Alternative Data Distribution (AD2)Algorithm. The
experimental calculations have evaluated both security and efficiency
performances. Moreover, the investigation results represent that their
approach can successfully protect main threats from clouds and needs with
an acceptable computation time. 4. RESEARCH GAP Although there’s an
extensive research that was conducted to reduce the load on the storage
systems, there’s a lot of scope to develop more effective solutions that can
address to optimize the storage usage. However, most of them are
hypothetical which are not practically possible to be implemented in the
cloud scenario. A systematic study in the context of storage optimization
would reveal good number of gaps that which are potential to enhance the
solutions. A solution as a Proof-of-work, in terms of optimization which does
not degrade the overall performance, if not enhanced, would always be
adoptable by the cloud service providers. In the context of cloud storage
most of the researches have proposed the techniques to compress the huge
volume of data, and data organization methods for the data that was
generated by the large-scale users. Whether the lossy or lossless
compression, every compression technique would stop after certain stage
when it reaches the trade-off, i.e., the computational resources required to
compress the huge-volume of data vs the time required to compress. These
techniques not only degrade the overall performance but also consumes lot
of energy and increase the computational costs which in turn would increase
the cost for the user. Cloud backup systems have sophisticated requirements
on reliability than common backup software. However, users unconsciously
feel it safer to backup critical data on visible devices. Doubts may arise
about the security of backing up private data in faraway data centers. Cloud
backup poses various abnormalities, as most of the providers concentrate on
providing security for the cloud backup than the backup software by which
the security issues would be as a result. Hence, the security for the data
backup is also an essential activity. 5. RESEARCH CHALLENGES While
implementing the solutions which were suggested by the researchers the
industry and the research teams have experienced many issues. These
issues range from the data size to the technologies adopted while
implementing the solutions at the data centre. Though many could be
solved, but the challenges as mentioned below needs a special focus. •
Before the data is backed up, more time has to be spent on identifying the
requirements of the file system at the storage. • While the data is being
backed up, Though the data security is vital, backup service security is at the
stake which would cause the fatal damage to the data. • An elastic security
service is needed for the cloud service provider because the types of cloud
data storage: object storage, file storage, and block storage. • Though high-
performance infrastructure is available with the cloud storage service
providers most of the resources are consumed for the scalability and
elasticity which needs to invoke various functions to be executed at the time
of redundant backups. • An asynchronous procedure is adopted for Cross-
region replication to backup each object in the storage, this would cause a
requirement of computation of location to be identified and then the creation
of meta data information. • Cloud service provider provides the data security
in two modes, client-side encryption and server-side encryption. Client-side
encryption ensures that the data is encrypted before it reaches the cloud
server, whereas the Server-side encryption ensures that the data is
encrypted without the client having the encryption facility. However, except
the large-scale organizations most of the small-scale organizations and
individuals would not prefer the client-side encryption. At the same time,
there are apprehensions across the users about the integrity of the security
services that are provided at the server-side. • Because of the distributed
architecture of the cloud servers elastic file system facility, higher
throughput can be experience if the I/O workloads are larger. For the lower
I/O workloads the throughput is not constant and is guaranteed to be higher.
• If the application at the client-side is not parallelizable across multiple
instances, then the throughput cannot be at a better number as the data
transfer is serialized. • Write performance and consistency of data transfer
speed is also dependent on whether the client system is able to support the
asynchronous writes to the file system. • Identity and Access Management
permission for API calls to access the backup software, security groups for
the cloud instances and file system permission for user-level, and group-
level must be defined appropriately. 6. CONCLUSION A study on various cloud
storage mechanisms was conducted and presented the observations, in this
paper. Most of the implementations have adopted the n-backup mechanism
to ensure the recovery in the case of any damage or data lost in the original
copy. It is observed that a potentially extra storage space, infrastructure and
related business logic have become a necessary need to implement n-
backup mechanism. As part of the study few issues have been identified
which ought to be addressed in order to reduce the storage space burden on
the service providers. Apparently, research challenges have also been
identified while implementing the solutions by the service providers and
presented the same in the paper. 7. SUGGESTIONS Developing the solutions
for a problem that potentially degrades the performance of any system
needs an immediate attention. From the discussion in this paper it is evident
that consumption of more space and investment for infrastructure would
always be a challenging issue for the cloud storage service provider. Hence,
there must be the development of solutions which reduce the burden of
extra storage space without compromising for the privacy and security.
These solutions shall not only reduce the storage load but also improve the
communication efficiency between the client and service provider.
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A Survey on Storage Techniques in Cloud Computing Samson Akintoye ISAT
Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of the Western
Cape, Cape Town, 7535, South Africa. Antoine Bagula ISAT Laboratory,
Department of Computer Science, University of the Western Cape, Cape
Town, 7535, South Africa. Yacine Djemaiel CNAS Lab, Carthage University,
Tunis, Tunisia Noureddine Bouriga CNAS Lab, Carthage University, Tunis,
Tunisia ABSTRACT In recent years, cloud computing is highly embraced and
considered a must have in the IT world. Cloud computing is a computing
paradigm, where a large pool of systems are connected in private, public or
hybrid networks, to provide dynamically scalable infrastructure for
computing resources. One of the services provided by cloud computing is
cloud storage that enables the upload and the retrieval of different kinds of
data. Accessing cloud storage service through Internet and pay as you used
subscription have been the reasons for the emergence of methods and
techniques to effectively store data and reduce storage security
vulnerabilities in the cloud storage. This paper provides a survey of some
proposed cloud storage methods and techniques, their advantages and
drawbacks and makes stress on the current requirements for storage
techniques in cloud computing. Keywords Cloud computing, Storage
Technique, Cloud Storage, Cloud Security 1. INTRODUCTION Recently, the
processing and the storage of huge volumes of data have been enhanced
enormously in these last decades due to the emergence of Cloud computing.
This concept is defined as a computing paradigm, where a large pool of
systems are connected in private, public or hybrid networks, to provide
dynamically scalable infrastructure for computing resources [18]. The
characteristics of cloud computing include on- demand self-service, broad
network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity and measured service. On-
demand self-service means that organizations can access and manage their
own computing resources. Broad network access allows services to be
offered over the Internet or private networks. The cloud computing service
models are Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) [11]. In SaaS model, consumer uses the
provider’s applications running on a cloud infrastructure. In PaaS, an
operating system, hardware, and network are provided, and the customer
installs or develops its own software and applications. The IaaS model
provides just the hardware and network; the customer installs or develops its
own operating systems, software and applications. Cloud services are
typically provided through a private cloud, community cloud, public cloud or
hybrid cloud [11]. In public cloud, services are offered over the Internet and
are owned and operated by a cloud provider. In a private cloud, the cloud
infrastructure is operated solely for a single organization, and is managed by
the organization or a third party. In a community cloud, the service is shared
by several organizations and made available only to those groups. The
infrastructure may be owned and operated by the organizations or by a cloud
service provider (CSP). A hybrid cloud is a combination of two or more cloud
infrastructures (private, community, or public) that remain unique entities,
but are bounded together by standardized or proprietary technology that
enables data and application portability. One of the important services
provided by cloud computing is cloud storage, which is a service where data
is remotely maintained, managed, and backed up. The service is available to
users over a network, that is usually the Internet. It allows the user to store
files online on a “pay-as-you go” or subscription basis so that the user can
access them from any location via the internet. There is no need to purchase
storage before storing data. Only the amount of storage the data actually
consuming is paid [12]. Furthermore, accessing cloud storage service
through Internet and pay as you used subscription have been the reasons for
the emergence of methods and techniques to effectively store data and
reduce storage security vulnerabilities in the cloud storage. This paper
reviews and surveys some proposed cloud storage techniques, their
advantages and drawbacks, data management and retrieval from cloud
storages in addition to security mechanisms that may be implemented to
protect storage clouds. 2. STORAGE TECHNIQUES IN CLOUD COMPUTING In
this section, we review some methods and techniques to store data in cloud
computing. The techniques are grouped into Storage Techniques for cloud,
data management in cloud storage, data retrieval from cloud, authentication
schemes for cloud storage, and data integrity and availability for cloud
storage. 2.1 SETiNS: Storage Efficiency Techniques in No-SQL database for
Cloud Based Design Bhatia et al. [1] proposed a novel design for efficient
storage technique in No-SQL Database for cloud storage. According to this
technique, data is fetched from Hadoop Distributed file system (HDFS). Data
are stored in the form of flat text files and to applying SETiNS efficiently for
large data, the file is deduplicated using a MapReduce to provide the key-
value pairs on the basis of which pointer table is created using MongoDB.
MongoDB is a cross-platform, document oriented database that provides,
high performance, high availability, and easy scalability. MongoDB works on
concept of collection and document. Collection is a group of MongoDB
documents which is equivalent of a table structure in an RDBMS model. A
document is a set of key-value pairs represented as a dynamic schema. In
this work, key-value pairs with the pointer table are now stored as a single
document. To get more efficient storage, the file is compressed and saved in
HDFS to save bandwidth consumption due to the reduced size. Deduplication
and compression together are used to reduce storage space for unravelling
large volumes of data handling problems. The execution phase include:
deduplicated, MapReduce Paradigm, Integration of the key-value pairs and
compression in Hadoop. The result shows improved storage efficiency by
saving subsequent storage space and network bandwidth in the case of
internodes data transfer. 2.2 Dynamic Data Deduplication in Cloud Storage
Leesakul et al. [4] proposed a dynamic deduplication scheme for cloud
storage, to improve storage efficiency and maintaining redundancy for fault
tolerance. Data deduplication is a technique used to reduce storage space
and network bandwidth. In existing deduplication systems duplicated data
chunks identify, store only one replica of the data in storage and logical
pointers are created for other copies instead of storing redundant data. The
existing deduplication schemes may prevent the system fault tolerance since
it may be that several files refer to the same data chunk which may be
unavailable due to failure. The dynamic deduplication scheme was proposed
to balance between storage efficiency and fault tolerance requirements and
address limitation of static deduplication scheme that cannot cope with
changing user behavior. For instance, data usage in cloud changes overtime;
some data chunks may be read frequently in a period of time, but may not
be used in another period. Dynamic deduplication scheme has the capability
to adapt to various access patterns and changing user behavior in cloud
storages. The proposed system is based on client-side deduplication using
whole file hashing. Hashing process is performed at the client, and connects
to any one of deduplicators according to their loads at that time then
identifies the duplication by comparing with the existing hash values in
Metadata Server. The system is composed of the following components: load
balancer that requests from clients sending to any one of deduplicators
according to their loads at that time; Deduplicators which identify the
performed duplication; Cloud Storage, a Metadata Server to store metadata
and File Servers to store actual files and their copies; and Redundancy
Manager to identify the initial number of copies, and monitor the changing
level of Quality of Service (QoS). The system model was stimulated using
HDFS, one Namenode as Metadata server, and five Datanodes as File
servers. Three events were simulated: upload, update, and delete. The
upload event is when the file is first uploaded to the system. If files already
exist in the system, and have been uploaded again, the number of copies of
the files will be recalculated according to the highest level of QoS. For a
delete file event, users can delete their files, but the files will not
permanently deleted from the system if there are any other users refer to
the same files. The number of copies of files was changed dynamically
according to the changing level of QoS. The experimental results show that,
the proposed system performs well and can deal with scalability problem. 2.3
A file-deduplicated private cloud storage service with CDMI standard Liu et
al. [5] proposed a data deduplication private cloud storage system with
Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) standard based on the
fundamental DFS. A data deduplication scheme is implemented in the
proposed system to reduce cost and increase the storage efficiency, the
international standard interface CDMI is implemented in the proposed
system to increase the interoperability. Gluster is chosen as the basic for DFS
to implement proposed private cloud storage system. The proposed private
cloud storage system consists of five components as shown in Figure 1:
Client which communicates with Controller in Front-end node and exchange
information; Front-end node contains Apache server that redirects the
requests which are sent from CDMI request sender to enhance load balance;
Adaptor node receives CDMI request and stores files via Gluster client.
Storage nodes contains GlusterFS server, which can create different types of
volume for different purposes. The proposed system provides the following
three main functionalities: upload file, download file, and delete file. During
the file upload process, hash value of the file is calculated by Hash generator
in Client and sent to the Controller where the hash value is compared with all
file metadata stored in Database. Controller will notify Client that file doesn't
exist, if the file is not duplicated. Then, the file's metadata will be sent to
Controller to insert it into database and CDMI sender in Client will send
upload file request. After receiving the request, Load balancer will route it to
CDMI Server by the apache load balancer scheduler algorithms. Finally,
Adaptor node will store the file to Storage node and will notify Client with
uploading finished response message. But, if the file is duplicated, Controller
will notify the Client that the file exits, then Client will send this file's
metadata to Controller to insert it into database which will create an empty
metadata file with the same file name Storage node. For download
functionality, Client initiate request and send a file_path to the Controller.
The Controller will search database for the real_path of this file and respond
to Client. Then, client's CDMI sender will send CDMI download file request
and the Load balancer redirects the request to CDMI server by the apache
load balancer scheduler algorithms. Finally, Adaptor nodes get the requested
file from GlusterFS and transmit it back to Client. The delete functionality is
classified into two types according to the relationship among file_path,
real_path and whether the file is shareable. If file_path is equal to real_path
and the file is shareable, the file is moved to the other place rather than
delete directly. Controller query database by file_path to find a suitable path
for moving files. After removing the files, the Database will be updated and
Client will receive the delete response message. But if file_path is not equal
to real_path, or file path is equal to real path and the file is not shareable, the
file can be deleted directly. After receiving a delete message which contains
file_path, Controller will delete file according to the file_path directly and
Client will receive the delete response message. The experiments are carried
out to estimate the efficiency and characteristics of the proposed system.
The results show that the proposed system is efficient for data transmission,
even if there are overhead times caused by data deduplication mechanisms.
The disadvantage of the proposed system is unable to perform very well
while dealing with bigger files since the file level deduplication is adopted.
Figure 1: A file-deduplicated private cloud storage service with CDMI
standard [5] 2.4 An optimized approach for storing and accessing small files
on cloud storage HDFS is an open-source software framework developed for
reliable, scalable, distributed computing and storage [21]. It performs better
for small size file than large file. However, there are some reasons for small
file problem of native HDFS: large numbers of small files impose huge load
on NameNode of HDFS, the relationships between small files are
contemplated for data placement, and optimization mechanism is not
provided to enhance I/O performance. In order to solve the problems of small
files of HDFS, Dong et al. [13] proposed an optimized model to improve the
performance of storing and accessing small files on HDFS. The cut-off point
between large and small files is measured in HDFS by an experiment. This
solve a ‘how small is small’ problem of small file and improves I/O
performance. First, files are classified as independent files, structurally and
logically-related files. Lastly, perfecting technique is used to improve access
efficiency and considering correlations when files are stored. Performance
analysis indicated that the proposed model improves the storage and access
efficiencies of small files, compared with native HDFS and a Hadoop file
archiving facility. 2.5 RACS (Redundant Array of Cloud Storage) Abu-Libdeh et
al. [15] proposed RACS (Redundant Array of Cloud Storage) a proxy based
system that transparently stripes data across multiple cloud storage
providers. The protocol allows customers to avoid vendor lock-in, reduces the
cost of switching providers, and better tolerates provider failures. It retrieves
data from the cloud that is about to fail and moves the data to the new
cloud. It is designed as a proxy between the client application and a set of n
repositories, which are cloud storage locations ideally hosted by different
providers. RACS splits the incoming object into m data shares of equal size
where m< n are configurable parameters. It uses erasure coding to create
additional (n −1) redundant shares, for a total of n shares. Any subset of m
shares is sufficient to reconstruct the original object. This protocol is unable
to recover data lost when permanent cloud failure occurred and it does not
address data integrity and confidentiality challenges for cloud storage. 3.
DATA MANAGEMENT IN CLOUD STORAGE Several techniques for data
management in Cloud Storage have been proposed for different kind of
clouds and also for several kind of data. 3.1 Multi-Index Technique for
Metadata Management in Private Cloud Storage Subha et al. [6] proposed a
multi-index technique for metadata management of chunks stored private
cloud storage to improve the performance of duplicate detection and
retrieval of the file. Private cloud storage is built for an organization to offer a
higher level of security and control over the data. However, private cloud
storage offers limited storage space; deduplication technique is applied to
utilize the storage in an efficient manner. This technique aims to remove the
redundant data and utilize the storage space in an optimized manner. It
divided the file into several chunks and computes the hash value for those
chunks. The hash value of a chunk is known as its chunkID. A chunk index
contains chunkID and the location of the corresponding actual chunk. When a
chunk of a file enters the storage, its chunkID is compared against the chunk
index to determine whether it is a duplicate chunk. Chunk index entries of
the entire storage cluster are divided into several indices based on the types
of files. If files are mutable, content based chunking is used to divide the file
to identify the duplicates. If files are less mutable, duplicates are identified
by performing fixed size chunking method. Duplicates of immutable files are
identified by comparing the entire files as the content of the files is not
modified. The indices are distributed across different storage nodes and
experiments were carried out to select a suitable index structure to organize
the chunk entries for their quick retrieval. Workload consisting of different
types of files with various sizes are deduplicated and stored in the storage
cluster. The retrieval times for different types of files are computed with the
distributed multi-index and are compared against the time taken with the
sequential index. Results show that the distributed multi-index out performs
the sequential index. 3.2 Indexing spatial data in cloud data managements
Wei et al. [7] proposed a novel efficient multi-dimensional index structure,
the KR+-index, on cloud data managements (CDMs) for retrieving skewed
spatial data efficiently. KR+- index is used for multi-dimensional range
queries and nearest neighbor queries and used R+ to build the index
structure and designed the key for efficient accessing of data. New efficient
spatial query algorithms, range queries and k-NN queries for the proposed
KR+-index are redefined. To insert a new data point, the algorithm first loops
up the key of the node corresponding to the node to which the point belongs,
then inserts the data point into the node. Since there is an upper bound to
the number of points in the node, the insertion algorithm checks the current
size of the node to determine if a split is needed. For a deletion event, the
algorithm first loops up the key of the node corresponding to the node to
which the point belongs, and then deletes the data point from the node. The
experiments to implement the KR+-index on Cassandra using spatial data is
carried out. The results show that KR+- index better than the additional
methods under the skew data distributions. 3.3 Exploiting user metadata for
energy- aware node allocation in a cloud storage system Cloud computing
enables users to store data, host applications and perform computations
over the network as cost- effective platforms. Cloud storage systems have
lower energy costs compared to traditional HPC clusters due to the better
utilization techniques. However, the increasing energy consumption of cloud
storage systems still need to be addressed as the amount of data stored and
the number of computations and applications in cloud increase rapidly. In [8],
several energy efficient storage node allocation methods are introduced.
These methods aims to allocate a subset of cloud storage nodes for each
user in order to reduce the energy by exploiting the metadata heterogeneity
of cloud users and preserve uniform distribution of the system resources on
demand. Three different methods to map cloud storage nodes to the cloud
users were proposed in this work. The first scheme includes balancing,
sequential, random and grouping which can be changed manually once one
of these techniques is chosen for a cloud storage system. Secondly, the
dynamic Greedy Scheme is an extension of fixed scheme method by
periodically doing dynamic reallocation among one of the four
aforementioned allocation techniques depending on their costs. The last
method is a Correlation- Based Scheme which monitors user activities and
tries to allocate the same subset of storage nodes to the users who tend to
use the cloud storage system simultaneously. The proposed energy-aware
node allocation methods have the capability to work for both traditional
distributed storage system architecture and disk array. The proposed
methods reduce not only the energy consumption, but also balance load on
storage nodes depending on metrics determined by the cloud administrators.
4. DATA RETRIEVAL 4.1 Efficient data retrieval from cloud storage using data
mining techniques Pratiba et al. [2] proposed top-n multi keyword retrieval
over encrypted cloud data using vector space model and Two Round
Searchable Encryption (TRSE) scheme. The protocol was developed to
address the limitations of existing searching schemes. In the traditional
searchable encryption schemes, users are allowed to search in the encrypted
cloud data through keywords, which support only Boolean search. In Single
keyword ranked search, searching of data in the cloud results too coarse
output and the data privacy is opposed using server side ranking based on
order-preserving encryption (OPE). The aim of the proposed system are
threefold: 1) protection of sensitive information by encrypting cloud data at
the administrator side; 2) authentication to the multi users; and 3) retrieving
top-n files matching the multi keywords and preserving privacy of encrypted
data using Two round searchable encryption method. In the proposed
scheme, the data owner encrypts the file using RSA encryption and also,
encrypts the searchable index using Homomorphic encryption. The cloud
storage server computes the scores from the encrypted index stored on
cloud and returns the encrypted file with its scores to the user as the server
receives a query consisting of multi-keywords from the user. Once the scores
are received, the user decrypts the scores and selects the files and sends the
respective file IDs to the server. Server sends the encrypted file to the user
and then the user decrypts the file using the private key sent by the
administrator. There are two-round communication between the cloud server
and the data user to retrieve the top-n files; calculation is performed at the
server side and the ranking is ensured at the user end. The proposed system
avoids overloads by ranking the files at the user side, reducing bandwidth
and protects document frequency. 4.2 Efficient Indexing and Query
Processing of Model-View Sensor Data in the Cloud Guo et al. [3] proposed an
innovative interval index, hybrid model-view query processing and enhanced
intersection search algorithm for model-view sensor data in the cloud. Model-
view sensor data management stores the sensor data in the form of
modelled segments which brings the additional advantages of data
compression and value interpolation.. The interval index known as KVI-index
is a two-tier structure consisting of one lightweight and memory-resident
binary search tree and one index-model table materialized in the key- value
store. Each segment of model-view sensor data consists of specific time and
value range and combination of the time and value intervals are represented
as keys to index each segment which allows the index to directly serve the
queries proposed. The key-value denotes interval index (KVI-index) to index
time and value intervals of model-view sensor data. In KVI-indexing, the
virtual searching tree (vs-tree) resides in memory, while an index-model
table in the key-value store is devised to materialize the secondary structure
(SS) of each node in vs-tree. The combination of KVI-index, range scan and
MapReduce known as KVI–Scan–MapReduce was applied to perform efficient
query processing for model-view sensor data in key-value stores. The results
of the experiments aiming to compare model-view sensor data query
processing with conventional one over raw sensor data, showed that the
proposed solution outperforms in terms of query response time and index
updating efficiency. 4.3 Secure and efficient data retrieval over encrypted
data using attribute-based encryption in cloud storage In securing cloud
data, the data owner can encrypt its data content before outsourcing rather
than leaving it in the plaintext form. However, typical encryption would not
be suitable for cloud information retrieval systems because the Cloud Service
Provider cannot retrieve encrypted contents from a plaintext query without
the decryption keys. To provide an information retrieval function while
addressing the security and privacy issues, Koo et al. [21] propose a
searchable encryption scheme using Attribute-Based Encryption(ABE) with
scrambled attributes to handle the presence of redundant encrypted data for
the same message, poor expressiveness regularly access policy and the
concentration of computational overhead on the searching entity. In this
scheme, the data owner can specify both of fine- grained access policy and
searching keyword set which is required to retrieve its data under the access
policy. To retrieve the encrypted content in cloud storage, the retriever
makes index terms from its private key satisfying the access policy made up
of keywords associated with the contents where these index terms are only
used for data accessing in the cloud storage system. This scheme has
advantage of one- to-many content distribution without a sacrifice of the
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1. Introduction

 Clearly defines cloud computing and its service models (SaaS, PaaS,
IaaS).

 Discusses cloud deployment models (public, private, hybrid,

community).
  Emphasizes cloud storage as a core component, introducing challenges
like efficiency and security.

2. Storage Techniques

Several methods are reviewed, highlighting their contribution and limitations:

 SETiNS with NoSQL & HDFS: Uses deduplication and compression to

save bandwidth and storage.

 Dynamic Deduplication (Leesakul et al.): Addresses static

deduplication's limitations by adapting to changing user behavior and
ensuring fault tolerance.

 File-deduplicated Storage with CDMI (Liu et al.): Employs

GlusterFS and CDMI for interoperability and deduplication, but
struggles with large files.

 Small File Optimization in HDFS (Dong et al.): Resolves

NameNode overload by classifying files and using correlation-aware
placement.

 RACS (Redundant Array of Cloud Storage): Distributes data across

multiple providers to avoid lock-in; lacks integrity/confidentiality
mechanisms.

3. Data Management Techniques

 Multi-index for Metadata in Private Clouds: Enhances chunk-level

deduplication and retrieval performance.

 KR+-index for Spatial Data: Efficient for skewed data using

Cassandra, supporting multidimensional queries.

 Energy-aware Node Allocation: Reduces energy usage via user

behavior analysis and metadata-driven storage node mapping.

4. Data Retrieval Approaches

 Encrypted Search using TRSE & RSA: Balances privacy with

functionality via two-round searchable encryption.

 Model-view Sensor Data with KVI-index: Combines data modeling

and indexing for real-time sensor data analytics.

 Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE): Supports fine-grained access

control while enabling secure search over encrypted data.
✅ Strengths

 Covers a diverse set of storage and retrieval techniques.

 Includes both efficiency-focused (e.g., deduplication, compression) and

security-focused (e.g., encrypted retrieval, ABE) methods.

 Provides detailed architectural and operational insights into each

technique.

⚠️Areas for Improvement / Expansion

 Could benefit from more comparative analysis tables summarizing

performance metrics, use cases, and trade-offs.

 Lacks discussion on real-world adoption, costs, or compliance (e.g.,

GDPR, HIPAA) in cloud storage.

 Most methods are technical—future sections could add business-driven

perspectives like SLAs or vendor evaluations.

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5. AUTHENTICATION SCHRMES FOR CLOUD STORAGE 5.1 Identity-Based

Authentication for Cloud Computing In Cloud Computing, cloud services are
accessed through Internet from different locations which exposed them to a
set of security threats. Hence, there is a need to authenticate users before
accessing cloud services. Li et al. [10] proposed identity-based hierarchical
model for cloud computing and corresponding encryption and signature
schemes. The identity-based Authentication Protocol is composed of the
following steps. In step (1), the client C sends the server S a ClientHello
message. The message contains a fresh random number C n, session
identifier ID and C specification. In step (2), the server S responds with a
ServerHello message which contains a new fresh random number S n, the
session identifier ID and the cipher specification S. The ciphertext is
transmitted to C as ServerKeyExchange message. Then S generates a
signature Sig S S [M] as the IdentityVerify message to forward to C. In step
(3), C verifies the signature S Sig S S with the help of S ID Being certificate-
free, the authentication protocol supports the idea of cloud computing. It was
observed that authentication protocol based on identity is more efficient and
less weight than Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Authentication Protocol. 5.2
Achieving Secure Role-Based Access Control on Encrypted Data in Cloud
Storage One of the services offer by CSPs is cloud storage with low cost, so it
reduces burden of local data storage but when data is outsourced user loses
control of their data which brings a security risk toward integrity and
confidentiality. To address this issue, Zhou et al. [19] proposed a Role-Based
Encryption (RBE) scheme that integrates the cryptographic techniques with
role-based access control (RBAC) to control and prevent unauthorized access
to data stored in the cloud. This work also presented a RBAC based cloud
storage architecture which allows an organisation to store data securely in a
public cloud, while maintaining the sensitive information related to the
organization’s structure in a private cloud. The proposed RBE-based
architecture is implemented and the performance results show that
encryption and decryption computations are efficient on the client side, and
decryption time at the cloud can be reduced by having multiple processors,
which is common in a cloud environment. The advantage of the proposed
system is that, it has potential to be useful in commercial situations as it
captures practical access policies based on roles in a flexible manner and
provides secure data storage in the cloud enforcing these access policies. 5.3
Data Security scheme for Cloud Computing using Signcryption based on
HyperElliptic Curves Cloud Computing is a computing model which provides
ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of
configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and
released with little or no up-front IT infrastructure investments costs. Cloud
computing moves the application and data to the cloud storage where the
management of the data and services may not be fully trustworthy.
Therefore, there is a need for cloud service providers to provide a sufficient
level of integrity for the client’s data. Akintoye et al. [22] proposed a data
security scheme using Signcryption and hyper elliptic curves as a single
logical step. Signcryption schemes based on hyperElliptic curves saves more
computational time and communication cost. 5.4 DAC-MACS: Effective Data
Access Control for Multi-Authority Cloud Storage Systems In cloud storage
system, data access control has been identified as challenging issue and
existing access control schemes are not appropriate because they either
produce multiple encrypted copies of the same data or require a fully trusted
cloud server. For instance, Ciphertext-Policy Attribute- based Encryption (CP-
ABE) requires a trusted authority that manages all the attributes and
distributes keys in the system and cannot be directly applied to data access
control for multi- authority cloud storage systems, due to the inefficiency of
decryption and revocation. To address these problems Yang et al. [20]
propose DAC-MACS (Data Access Control for Multi- Authority Cloud Storage),
an effective and secure data access control scheme with efficient decryption
and revocation. In this scheme, a new multi-authority CP-ABE scheme with
efficient decryption is built. The access control scheme consists of four
phases: System Initialization, Key Generation, Encryption and Decryption. In
a second step, authors design an efficient attribute revocation method for
both forward security and backward security. The attribute revocation
includes three phases: Update Key Generation, Key Update and Ciphertext
Update. The analysis and the simulation results show that the proposed
scheme is highly efficient and provably secure. The advantage of the scheme
is that it incurs less storage overhead, communication cost and computation
cost compared to existing schemes. 6. DATA INTERITY AND AVAILABILITY FOR
CLOUD STORAGE 6.1 HAIL (High-Availability and Integrity Layer) Bowers et al.
[14] proposed HAIL (High-Availability and Integrity Layer) that provides data
integrity and availability across multiple cloud storage. It engages the use of
PORs (Proofs of Retrievability) as building blocks by which storage resources
can be verified and reallocated when failures are detected. It relies on a
single trusted verifier that interacts with nodes to check the integrity of
stored data. In HAIL, a client distributes a file F with redundancy across n
servers and keeps some small (constant) state locally. The goal of HAIL is to
ensure resilience against a mobile adversary. The advantages of the protocol
are: Strong file-intactness assurance, Low overhead, Strong adversarial
model, Direct client-server communication and Static/dynamic file protection.
However, the protocol is built on erasure code which provides only fault
tolerance; it does not address the recovery of the outsourced data on a failed
cloud without ensuring the confidentiality of the stored data. 6.2 DEPSKY
Bessani et al. [16] proposed DEPSKY, a dependable and secure storage
system to improve the availability, integrity and confidentiality of data stored
in the. It addresses four limitations of individual clouds storage: loss of
availability, loss and corruption of data, loss of privacy and Vendor lock-in by
using Byzantine quorum system protocol, cryptography, secret sharing,
erasure codes and the diversity that comes from using several clouds.
DEPSKY is designed as a virtual storage cloud, which is accessed by its users
by invoking operations in several individual clouds. 6.3 NCCloud Chen et al.
[17] proposed NCCloud, a proxy-based storage system for fault-tolerant
multiple-cloud storage that achieves cost-effective repair for a permanent
single-cloud failure. It is built on top of a network-coding-based storage
scheme called the functional minimum-storage regenerating (FMSR) codes,
which maintain the same fault tolerance and data redundancy as in
traditional erasure codes (e.g., RAID-6), but instead it uses less repair traffic
which incur less monetary cost due to data transfer. NCCloud is a proxy
based design that interconnects multiple cloud repositories. The proxy serves
as an interface between client applications and the clouds. If a cloud
experiences a permanent failure, the proxy activates the repair operation.
The proxy reads the essential data chucks from other surviving clouds,
reconstructs new data chucks, and writes these new chucks to a new cloud.
It excludes the failed cloud in repair operation. However, the protocol does
not guarantee the integrity and confidentiality of the data chunks stripped
across multiple clouds. 6.4 Minimizing data redundancy for high reliable
cloud storage systems One of the services provided by cloud storage system
is reliability of the outsourced data. In order to avoid failures, copies of data
objects are distributed across set of storage nodes using redundancy
schemes. In [9], a novel model for the storage allocation scheme in cloud
storage systems is proposed aiming to minimize the data redundancy while
achieving a given (high) data reliability. To optimize the redundancy, two
schemes by finding minimum number of blocks in total with fixed number of
sufficient blocks for recovery and finding maximum number of sufficient
blocks for recovery with fixed number of blocks in total, which allows the
schemes to be deployed for different systems. The optimal storage allocation
scheme has advantages to significantly reduce the search space, simplify
and accelerate the calculation process; and save redundancy process. 7.
ANALYSIS AND CLASSSIFICATION OF STORAGE TECHNIQUES IN CLOUD
COMPUTING In this section, we made an analysis of storage techniques in
cloud computing based on their performances and benefits. We also
classified the techniques according to their usage. Table 1: Analysis Of
Storage Techniques Reviewed papers Descriptions and key issue handled
Benefits Bhatia et al. [1] Used HDFS, compression algorithm and MongoDB
database for cloud storage design. Improved storage efficiency by saving
subsequent storage space and network bandwidth. Pratiba et al. [2] Top-n
multi keyword retrieval over encrypted cloud data. It’s secure, scalable and
accurate compared to the other ranked keyword search. Guo et al. [3]
Interval index, hybrid model-view query processing and enhanced
intersection search algorithm for model-view sensor data in the cloud. It
provides an optimized query response time and better index updating
efficiency. Leesakul et al. [4] Balance between storage efficiency and fault
tolerance requirements and address limitation of static deduplication scheme
that cannot cope with changing user behavior. It use to handle with
scalability problem. Liu et al. [5] A data deduplication private cloud storage
system with CDMI standard based on the fundamental DFS. It reduces cost
and increases the storage efficiency. It also increase the interoperability
between storage nodes. Subha et al. [6] Multi-index technique for duplicate
detection and retrieval of the file in private cloud storage. Multi-index out
performs the sequential index in term of retrieval time. Wei et al. [7] Multi-
dimensional index for retrieving skewed spatial data in the cloud storage.
KR+-index better than the state-of-the-art methods under the skew data
distributions. Karakoyunlu [8] Allocation of a subset of cloud storage nodes
for each user to reduce the energy consumption. It reduces energy
consumption and balances load on storage nodes depending on metrics
determine by the cloud administrators. Huang [9] A novel model for the
storage allocation scheme in cloud storage systems to minimizes the data
redundancy while achieving a given (high) data reliability. It has advantages
to significantly reduce the search space, simplified and accelerated the
calculation process; and save redundancy process. Li et al. [10] Identity-
based hierarchical model for cloud computing and corresponding encryption
and signature schemes. It more efficient and less weight than Secure socket
layer (SSL)Authentication Protocol. Dong et al. [13] An optimized model for
storing and accessing small files on HDFS. It improves the storage and
access efficiencies of small files, compared with native HDFS and a Hadoop
file archiving facility Bowers et al. [14] High-Availability and Integrity Layer to
provide data integrity and availability across multiple cloud storage. The
advantages of the protocol are: Strong file- intactness assurance, Low
overhead, Strong adversarial model, Direct client-server communication and
Static / dynamic file protection. Abu-Libdeh et al. [15] A proxy based system
that transparently stripes data across multiple cloud storage providers. It
allows customers to avoid vendor lock-in, reduce the cost of switching
providers, and better tolerate provider failures. Bessani et al. [16] A
dependable and secure storage system to improve the availability, integrity
and confidentiality of data stored in the cloud It addresses four limitations of
individual clouds storage: Loss of availability, Loss and corruption of data,
Loss of privacy and Vendor lock-in Zhou et al. [19] A role-based encryption
(RBE) scheme that integrates the cryptographic techniques with role-based
access control (RBAC) . It controls and prevents unauthorized access to data
stored in the cloud. Akintoye et al. [22] A data security scheme for cloud
computing using Signcryption and hyper-elliptic curves as a single logical
step The scheme saves more computational time and communication cost.
Yang et al. [20] An effective and secure data access control scheme with
efficient decryption and revocation. It addresses inefficiency of decryption
and revocation in the existing schemes. Furthermore, it incurs less storage
overhead, communication cost and computation cost compared to existing
scheme. Koo et al. [21] A searchable encryption scheme using Attribute-
Based Encryption(ABE) It provides one-to-many content distribution without
a sacrifice of the nature of Attribute- Based Encryption(ABE). Chen et al. [17]
A proxy-based storage system for fault-tolerant multiple- cloud storage that
achieves cost-effective repair for a permanent single-cloud failure. The proxy
activates the repair operation, if a cloud experiences a permanent failure.
Table 2: Classfication Of Storage Techniques Reviewed papers Cloud Model
Data Security Data Redundancy Data Indexing and Retrieval Data Storage
Bhatia et al. [1] Both Private and public clouds No Yes No Yes Pratiba et al. [2]
Both Private and public clouds Yes No Yes Yes Akintoye et al. [22] Both
Private and public clouds Yes No No Yes Guo et al. [3] Both Private and public
clouds No Yes Yes Yes Leesakul et al. [4] Both Private and public clouds No
Yes No Yes Liu et al. [5] Private cloud Yes Yes No Yes Subha et al. [6] Private
cloud Yes Yes yes Yes Wei et al. [7] Both Private and public clouds No Yes Yes
Yes Karakoyunlu [8] Both Private and public clouds No No No Yes Huang [9]
Both Private and public clouds No Yes No Yes Li et al. [10] Both Private and
public clouds Yes No No Yes Dong et al. [13] Private cloud No Yes Yes Yes
Bowers et al. [14] Public Cloud Yes Yes Yes Yes Abu-Libdeh et al. [15] Public
Cloud No Yes Yes Yes Bessani et al. [16] Public Cloud Yes Yes Yes Yes Chen et
al. [17] Public Cloud No Yes Yes Yes Zhou et al. [19] Both Private and public
clouds Yes No No Yes Yang et al. [20] Both Private and public clouds Yes No
No Yes Koo et al. [21] Both Private and public clouds Yes No Yes Yes 8.
CONCLUSION Cloud computing has become increasingly popular in the IT
world as the next infrastructure for storing data and deploying software and
services. It provides users with a long list of benefits, such as on-demand
self-service; broad, heterogeneous network access; resource pooling and
rapid elasticity with measured services. One of the important services
offered in cloud computing is the cloud data storage, in which, subscribers do
not have to store their own data on their servers, instead their data will be
stored on the CSP’s servers. In this paper, we have reviewed and surveyed
some methods and techniques to provide fault-tolerant, availability,
reliability, security, integrity and effective cost storage for outsourced data in
the cloud. The advantages of these schemes are presented in addition to the
set of issues that may be studied by the research communities to enhance
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Survey on Cloud Storage Techniques – Authentication, Integrity, and

Availability

5. Authentication Schemes for Cloud Storage

5.1 Identity-Based Authentication for Cloud Computing

In cloud computing, services are accessed over the Internet from various
locations, which exposes them to several security threats. Therefore,
authenticating users before accessing cloud services is crucial. Li et al. [10]
proposed an identity-based hierarchical model for cloud computing,
accompanied by encryption and signature schemes.

The Identity-Based Authentication Protocol comprises the following steps:

1. The client CC sends a ClientHello message to the server SS,

containing a fresh random number CnCn, session identifier IDID, and
client specifications.

2. The server SS replies with a ServerHello message including a fresh

random number SnSn, session identifier IDID, and cipher specifications.
The ciphertext is transmitted to CC via
the ServerKeyExchange message. Then, SS generates a
signature SigS[M]SigS[M] and sends it as the IdentityVerify message
to CC.

3. The client verifies the signature using SS's ID.

This certificate-free protocol aligns with the principles of cloud computing. It

was observed to be more efficient and lightweight than the traditional SSL
Authentication Protocol.

5.2 Role-Based Access Control on Encrypted Cloud Data

Cloud service providers offer low-cost storage, but outsourcing data leads to
a loss of control, raising concerns about data integrity and confidentiality.
Zhou et al. [19] proposed a Role-Based Encryption (RBE) scheme
integrating cryptographic techniques with Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
This framework:

 Stores organizational data in a public cloud.

 Maintains structural-sensitive information in a private cloud.

Performance evaluations show that encryption and decryption are efficient

on the client side. Decryption time is further reduced using cloud's inherent
parallelism. The approach is flexible and enforces access policies effectively,
making it practical for commercial environments.

5.3 Signcryption-Based Security Using HyperElliptic Curves

Cloud computing involves moving data and applications to cloud servers,

which might not be fully trusted. Akintoye et al. [22] proposed a data
security mechanism using Signcryption based on hyperelliptic curves.
This technique combines signing and encryption in a single logical step. The
advantages include:

 Reduced computational time.

 Lower communication cost.

This makes it suitable for secure and lightweight cloud-based applications.

5.4 DAC-MACS: Multi-Authority Access Control

Traditional access control schemes in cloud storage are inefficient due to

issues like multiple encrypted data copies or reliance on fully trusted servers.
To resolve this, Yang et al. [20] proposed DAC-MACS (Data Access Control
for Multi-Authority Cloud Storage), a scheme with:

 A multi-authority CP-ABE (Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based

Encryption) system.

 Efficient decryption and attribute revocation mechanisms.

The scheme includes four phases: system initialization, key generation,

encryption, and decryption. It supports forward and backward
security through update key generation, key update, and ciphertext update
processes. Simulation results show reduced storage, communication, and
computation overhead compared to existing systems.

6. Data Integrity and Availability for Cloud Storage

6.1 HAIL (High-Availability and Integrity Layer)

Bowers et al. [14] proposed HAIL, a protocol providing integrity and

availability across multiple cloud storages using Proofs of Retrievability
(PoRs). A trusted verifier checks the data integrity across nn distributed
servers. HAIL offers:

 Strong file integrity assurances.

 Low overhead.

 Resilience to mobile adversaries.

However, HAIL is based on erasure codes, focusing on fault tolerance
without addressing confidentiality.

6.2 DEPSKY

DEPSKY, proposed by Bessani et al. [16], improves data availability,

integrity, and confidentiality by addressing limitations such as:

 Data loss or corruption.

 Privacy violations.

 Vendor lock-in.

Using Byzantine quorum systems, cryptography, erasure codes, and

secret sharing, DEPSKY acts as a virtual cloud layer interacting with
multiple clouds to enhance reliability and security.

6.3 NCCloud

Chen et al. [17] developed NCCloud, a proxy-based system designed to

recover from permanent failures in multi-cloud environments
using Functional Minimum-Storage Regenerating (FMSR) codes. Key
benefits:

 Reduces repair bandwidth cost.

 Supports transparent failure recovery by reconstructing and

redistributing data chunks.

However, NCCloud does not guarantee confidentiality and integrity of the

data during the repair process.

6.4 Minimizing Data Redundancy for Reliable Cloud Storage

Huang et al. [9] proposed a redundancy optimization model that

achieves high reliability while reducing storage overhead. It employs two
schemes:

1. Minimizing the number of total blocks with a fixed number of recovery

blocks.
 2. Maximizing the number of recovery blocks with a fixed total block
count.

This approach simplifies calculations and enhances redundancy efficiency.

7. Analysis and Classification of Storage Techniques

Table 1: Analysis of Storage Techniques

Reviewed
Paper Description / Key Issue Benefits

Identity-based model with Lightweight and more efficient th

Li et al. [10] encryption/signature SSL

Zhou et al.
[19] RBE integrated with RBAC Secure role-based data control

Akintoye et al. Reduces computation and

[22] Signcryption with hyperelliptic curves communication cost

Yang et al.
[20] DAC-MACS scheme Efficient decryption and revocati

Bowers et al.
[14] HAIL for multi-cloud integrity Low overhead, strong integrity

Bessani et al. Enhances availability and

[16] DEPSKY: secure multi-cloud confidentiality

Chen et al.
[17] NCCloud: cost-efficient repair Reduces repair traffic, fault-toler

Huang et al. Minimizes redundancy while ens

[9] Redundancy-optimized storage reliability
Table 2: Classification of Techniques

Cloud Data Data Indexing/ Data

Paper Model Security Redundancy Retrieval Stora

Public/
Li et al. [10] Private Yes No No Yes

Public/
Zhou et al. [19] Private Yes No No Yes

Akintoye et al. Public/

[22] Private Yes No No Yes

Public/
Yang et al. [20] Private Yes No No Yes

Bowers et al.
[14] Public Yes Yes Yes Yes

Bessani et al.
[16] Public Yes Yes Yes Yes

Chen et al. [17] Public No Yes Yes Yes

Public/
Huang et al. [9] Private No Yes No Yes

8. Conclusion

Cloud computing has transformed IT infrastructures by offering scalable, on-

demand services without the need for heavy local investments. Among its
critical services is cloud data storage, which enables users to outsource
data management to cloud providers.
This paper reviewed and analyzed several techniques for ensuring security,
integrity, availability, reliability, and cost-efficiency in cloud storage.
Each technique addresses specific challenges like authentication, data
access control, redundancy, and failure recovery.

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offering a foundation for further research in optimizing cloud storage
infrastructures for enhanced performance and security.

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paper and asked me to:

 Merge it with the first half you sent earlier.

 Clean it, organize it, and make it well-formatted.

 Analyze and summarize the full paper's structure and

contributions.

 Deliver it in both Word and PDF formats.

2. I’ve now processed the full survey (both halves) and provided:

 A merged summary.
  A downloadable format solution (in Python).

Would you like me to email or help you compile this into a printable
academic report format as well?

You said:

now give me only pdf what you have done as i have to submit it to teacher

ChatGPT said:

I currently can't generate downloadable files directly in this chat. However,

you can use the following instructions to easily create the PDF file on your
own computer. The process involves using a Python script, but if you don’t
have Python installed, I can guide you on how to use online tools to convert
your text to PDF.

Step-by-Step Guide to Create PDF

Option 1: Using Python (If you have Python installed):

1. Install dependencies (if not already installed): Open your

terminal/command prompt and run:

bash

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pip install python-docx fpdf

2. Copy the below code into a Python file (e.g., create_pdf.py).

3. Run the Python script to generate the PDF file.

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from fpdf import FPDF # Replace this with your full merged paper content
merged_text = """Your full, formatted content from both parts of the second
survey paper goes here... Start with: 5. AUTHENTICATION SCHEMES FOR
CLOUD STORAGE 5.1 Identity-Based Authentication for Cloud Computing ...
And end with: [22] S. B. Akintoye, and K. A. Akintoye “Data Security scheme
for Cloud Computing using Signcryption Based on HyperElliptic curves"... """
# Create PDF pdf = FPDF() pdf.add_page() pdf.set_font("Arial", size=12)
pdf.multi_cell(0, 10, merged_text) # Save PDF to a file
pdf.output("Cloud_Storage_Survey_Paper2.pdf") print("PDF created
successfully!")
 4. Execute the script (in the directory where create_pdf.py is saved),
and it will generate Cloud_Storage_Survey_Paper2.pdf.

Option 2: Online Tool (No Code Required)

1. Go to a free online PDF converter

(e.g., https://www.ilovepdf.com/ or https://www.pdfcrowd.com/).

2. Copy and paste your full survey paper text (merged from both halves
you gave me).

3. Select “Convert to PDF” or “Download as PDF”.

4. Download the generated PDF file.

Let me know if you'd like more assistance with any step!