New Encryption Tools for the Cloud

Grazed from BankInfoSecurity. Author: Eric Chabrow.

Computer scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing new ways to apply encryption when storing or searching data in the cloud, says Paul Royal, associate director of the university’s information security center. This encryption research, designed to address security concerns associated with cloud computing, is highlighted in Georgia Tech’s just-issued Emerging Cyber Threats Report 2014.

The university has developed an application called CloudCapsule that encrypts data on mobile and other devices before its securely transmitted and stored in the cloud, Royal explains in an interview with Information Security Media Group. Encrypting data before it enters the cloud provides protection against cybercriminals seeking to pilfer data and governments demanding keys to decrypt data on servers situated in their jurisdictions, Royal says…

"For those reasons, we feel it is best for the encryption to occur before the data leaves the device and goes into the cloud," he says…

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