A Novel Approach for Distributed Accountability of Data Sharing in a PHP Cloud

Distributed computing and Cloud computing both enables highly scalable services that are easily consumed over the Internet on demand basis where the major feature of the distributed and cloud services is that users’ data are usually processed remotely in unknown machines that users do not own or operate or have control on their data while enjoying the convenience brought by this new emerging technologies. But on same hand a user fears of losing control of his or her own data that can become a significant fear factor to the wide adoption of cloud services. To address this sort of problems we propose a novel highly decentralized information accountability framework to keep track of the actual usage of the users’ data in a PHP based cloud by proposing an object-cantered approach that enables enclosing our logging mechanism together with users’ data and policies that are designed individually. We leverage the PHP programmable capabilities to both create a dynamic and travelling object which also ensures user data access by triggering authentication and automated logging techniques by performing extensive experimental study that demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed solution based on PHP.