Enhancing Data Security and Storage in Cloud Computing Environment

Abstract: Cloud computing is the most emerging technology that becomes the demanding architecture for IT enterprise. A vast number of big organizations like Amazon, Google, Facebook all depends upon this type of computing. Cloud computing moves its database and applications on various data centers across various countries where management of data and its security is the major concern. A lot of services like dropbox, flickr, facebook, picasa achieved a widespread popularity for saving, organizing and managing the pictorial data which arises various security and privacy challenges. However many encryption algorithms and methodologies have been implemented yet there is no achievement over proper security. In order to achieve trust and security for picture data we represent a novel approach for secure partitioning. Basic idea behind this research is to segment and store the image on a public and private cloud to cut down the storage cost as well as protecting the user privacy by removing those attributes of the image which can be used to identify the user or the owner of the picture. For enhanced security, sensitive data is stored on the private cloud and non-sensitive data on public cloud