This project focuses on the data security and privacy challenges of being able to provide delegated authorization and access permissions for Cloud services. We are currently working to define novel access control models, develop new encryption algorithms that use those models, implement software prototypes for a variety of cloud applications, and provide a well-defined set of access control policies. This research delves into three thrusts – theoretic advances, policy support, and prototype system building.

Sponsor

This project is sponsored by the Office of Naval Research.
This project is a result of a joint collaboration between UMBC and USNA.

Project Members

Faculty from UMBC: Dr. Karuna P Joshi, Prof. Tim Finin

Faculty from USNA: Dr. Seung Geol Choi, Dr. Travis Mayberry, Dr. Adam Aviv, and Dr. Daniel S Roche

Students: Sharad Dixit, Maithilee Joshi

Publications

• Sharad Dixit, Karuna P. Joshi, and Seung Geol Choi, “Multi Authority Access Control in a Cloud EHR System with MA-ABE“, in proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE 2019), July 2019,
• Maithilee P. Joshi, Karuna P. Joshi, and Tim Finin, “Delegated Authorization Framework for EHR Services using Attribute Based Encryption“, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, doi: 10.1109/TSC.2019.2917438, 2019.