Cloud Based Group Secure Resource Sharing

Abstract

In today’s world of technology where everyone is connected to Internet and communication and sharing of confidential resources is indispensable, there are a number of security threats we are vulnerable to, for instance Privacy breach, Hacking and Traffic Monitoring etc. Existing software solutions don’t focus on secure resource sharing and group management as per user’s need. The organizations therefore rely on external email providers and other expensive group collaboration and project management solutions. To devise a generic solution for the stated problem, which is secure, fast, robust and scalable at the same time is a tough task. The proposed solution is Cloud Based Group Secure Resource Sharing. It helps to solve these problems and provides secure system using well known security standards. These standards provide a security framework for creating and managing cryptographic groups and offer a quantitative basis for security assurance. It focuses on development of an open source and freeware solution that features secure group management and resource sharing. It also manages the access to dynamically created groups based on events and time. It uses GSAKMP (Group Secure Association Key Management Protocol) for high end group security. It creates X509 Identities of users and effective authorization mechanism using Policy Token. It also provides secure distribution of keys to members of group for encrypted resource sharing. It uses AWS for storage of resources uploaded by the users/members. An open source project is developed that focuses on security and functionality at the same time. It can be used for further research in Cyber security esp. group information security.