“ENCRYPTION AS A SERVICE” FOR MULTICLOUD ENVIRONMENT

Challenges and security concerns are preventing businesses from consolidating a data center or joining a cloud service. They contribute to the slow progress in shifting workloads from physical servers to virtual machines. There is a big shift in infrastructure which is a challenge for IT professionals. New encryption technologies are needed to support service providers and dynamic data centers. Today data is stored on premises, in the cloud on mobile devices and across a hybrid IT landscape which has compelled a move from traditional approach to adopting and managing encrypted data [1]. In this paper, an “Encryption as Service” for Multi- Cloud Environment is suggested that requires an encrypting agent to take care of encryption and manage the encryption keys and auditing process.