TY - GEN
T1 - Norton Zone
T2 - 35th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, SRDS 2016
AU - Bogorad, Walter
AU - Schneider, Scott
AU - Zhang, Haibin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/12/21
Y1 - 2016/12/21
N2 - Cloud storage services are the way of the future, if not the present, but broad adoption is limited by a stark trade-off between privacy and functionality. Many popular cloud services provide search capabilities, but make only nominal efforts to keep user data fully private. Alternatives that search private user data on an untrusted server sacrifice functionality and/or scalability. We describe Norton Zone, Symantec's secure and scalable public storage system based on our valet security model. Whereas most commercial cloud storage systems secure user data with access control and legal mechanisms, Zone's cryptographic techniques provide proven privacy guarantees. This gives users an extra layer of security without compromising functionality. Zone's performance is comparable to unencrypted cloud storage systems that support search and sharing. We report on the design of Zone and the lessons learned in developing and deploying it in commercial, distributed datacenters scalable to millions of users.
AB - Cloud storage services are the way of the future, if not the present, but broad adoption is limited by a stark trade-off between privacy and functionality. Many popular cloud services provide search capabilities, but make only nominal efforts to keep user data fully private. Alternatives that search private user data on an untrusted server sacrifice functionality and/or scalability. We describe Norton Zone, Symantec's secure and scalable public storage system based on our valet security model. Whereas most commercial cloud storage systems secure user data with access control and legal mechanisms, Zone's cryptographic techniques provide proven privacy guarantees. This gives users an extra layer of security without compromising functionality. Zone's performance is comparable to unencrypted cloud storage systems that support search and sharing. We report on the design of Zone and the lessons learned in developing and deploying it in commercial, distributed datacenters scalable to millions of users.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85010190001&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/SRDS.2016.020
DO - 10.1109/SRDS.2016.020
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85010190001
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
SP - 81
EP - 90
BT - Proceedings - 2016 IEEE 35th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, SRDS 2016
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 26 September 2016 through 29 September 2016
ER -