Enhancing Cloud Computing Security with Blockchain: A Decentralized Approach to Data Integrity, Access Control, and Compliance
摘要
Cloud computing has revolutionized data storage and processing, but it faces significant security challenges, including data breaches, unauthorized access, and lack of transparency. The advances made in the field of technology have changed how data are stored, processed, and even accessed: there is no longer a need to rely on physical tools like a computer. However, there is significant opposition when it comes to performing processes in the cloud such as data breaches, lack of authorization, or lack of transparency. These inverted features become impediments in the cloud environment, and a comprehensive approach is required to improve it. This stems from a reliance on older approaches, where matters are dealt with on a singular basis. Without cooperative effort, cloud protection strategies will continue using lower-level tools that lack depth. This would make augmenting the central point of a cloud primitive in nature and its features useless. The paper explains how applying blockchain technology can complete the entire framework of the cloud environment by merging standards of security increase, industry unmatched data separation protocols, and the untouched feature of decentralization. With blockchain, the creation of unbreakable audit logs, alteration of data becoming impossible, state of the art control over who possesses access, and division of responsibility between users becomes achievable. The solution for reconstruction of primitive protective measures that will keep data stable and backward compatible while keeping the system non forgiving to unauthorized access is through the use of Blockchain security framework. There are numerous spheres of life where these principles can be applied, such as the realm of finance, healthcare, IoT devices, and systems that cluster data clouds, which is an understatement of what was described. Although blockchain offers revolutionary answers to counter the central point doctrine and mitigate damage risks, problems like high levels of energy consumption, long term periods of research, and low regulations regarding the control of the cloud still remain. With the absence of direct danger and the inclusion of complex architectures, step by step becomes the suppression of the points of failure. The paper that follows serves as the guide to developing systems for better cloud protection which will defend against transcendental movements towards central hub anti-principle in the realms of data.