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Distributed Information Accountability Using Jar File and Log File Concepts

Mahima K G, Sivadasan E T

With the increased reliance on distributed computing platforms to perform computing, the accountability of the data stored on these platforms is becoming a grave issue. In all the current cloud computing platforms, the SLA’s(Service Level Agreement) with service providers is the only means of ensuring accountability. But the fact remains that the data owner don’t have any direct control over their precious data stored in a cloud service or on a distributed platform. They don’t have a mechanism to track where their data is, or whether its usage is according to the agreed SLA. Hence SLA’s alone are completely irrelevant for ensuring accountability. Since the conveniences brought by the cloud is impossible to ignore, there is need to address this accountability issue. So this DIA framework is the result of a study to introduce a mechanism to track the files in a cloud for their usage. It provide a JAR based architecture, which stores the files inside special JAR files in a cloud environment. There’s inbuilt automatic logging mechanism as well as transparent usage tracking. This makes sure that the owner of the data can be aware of the whereabouts of his data in the cloud. It make use of a specific cloud platform to demonstrate this idea, but it can be as effectively used on any cloud environment or any distributed computing platform for ensuring accountability of one’s data.