ESSAC: Enhanced Scalable Secure Access Control Framework for Cloud Storage

Outsourcing data storage and IT workloads to a third-party cloud provider introduces some security risks and time performance degradation. Moreover, controlling access to this data becomes very difficult when the volume of the data and number of users is very high. Various access control techniques have been proposed to address this issue. However, those techniques have complex schemes which are costly to be applied in real scenarios and they have limited flexibility and scalability to large volumes of data and users. In this paper we propose ESSAC which is an enhanced version of the SSAC scheme. ESSAC introduces a fine-grained access control scheme based on a classified Attribute Based Encryption, Role Based Encryption and Single Key Encryption methodology which achieves highest security without degrading the performance. We validate our scheme using a simulation on top of Amazon S3 and compare it to current schemes.