A Honey Bee behaviour inspired novel Attribute-based access control using enhanced Bell-Lapadula model in cloud computing

Abstract

Cloud computing is one of the emerging technologies that is being used widely these days. It makes use of the computing resources such as hardware and software that is delivered over the internet and provides remote services with user's data, software and computation. There has been a growing trend to use the cloud for large-scale data storage. This has raised the important security issue of how to control and prevent unauthorized access to data stored in the cloud. There are various access control techniques in cloud environment such as IBAC, RBAC, ABAC, MAC, DAC. Among these techniques, Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) is gaining more importance. Here access is granted based on attributes. Our primary objective is to summarize all the access control techniques in cloud environment. Our main objective is to come up with a Novel Attribute-Based Access Control for cloud security using Enhanced Bell-Lapadula Model inspired from Honey Bee behaviour. The Honey Bee prevents the intruders from entering into their hives. This is similar to the access control mechanism in cloud environment. It identifies the bee that belongs to the same hive by the possession of the small barbs on the stings. Similarly, we are trying to restrict the users based on the possession of correct set of attributes by using ABAC technique.