An Approach for Ensuring Security in Cloud Environment

Cloud computing is a pool of ample of resources for the users accessed through internet. It has emerged as a computing standard where the computing infrastructure is served as internet services and has made a great change in the way of computation and services for its customers. Such a cloud is needed which doesn't compromise with any of the following factors: Flexibility, integrity, reliability and elasticity, and provide a secure place to store and transit data. In cloud, security issues have always been dilemma as here, the user's data is stored tenuously and they have no control over it. In this paper we have proposed a new approach for securing the cloud environment and the data storage by blending authentication with hashing algorithm and encryption algorithm. The objective of the paper is to develop a secure cloud environment which fulfills the standards of authentication, data confidentiality and user oriented access control.