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Missouri University of Science and Technology

Masters Theses

2011

<p>Authentication -- Methodology -- United States<br />Cloud computing -- Access control<br />Cloud computing -- Security measures</p>

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A Social Network Of Service Providers For Trust And Identity Management In The Cloud, Makarand Bhonsle Jan 2011

A Social Network Of Service Providers For Trust And Identity Management In The Cloud, Makarand Bhonsle

Masters Theses

"With the advent of a new paradigm in computing known as Cloud Computing which offers computing as a service, the inflow of a variety of service vendors is increasing constantly. One of the main challenges in this distributed network of service provisioning and deprovisioning system is the end user's privacy. Enforcing authentication and authorization protocols customized to the needs of every service provider evolves to a very intricate Identity Management System with respect to both the collaborating service providers as well as the user. This problem was addressed by the Federated Identity Management systems, where the user information is stored …