An Additional Security Layer in the Implementation of SaaS (Software as a Service) - A Survey

With the advent of web and the concerned technologies the end users can generate or share any number of documents. A service such as collaborative edition of online documents is commonly provided through Cloud Computing as Software as a Service. However, the Cloud paradigm requires the end user’s to trust their service providers. Nowadays companies provide infrastructure facilities such as storage space, processing capacity, applications, etc., for user’s and companies. When confidential information of user’s or that of a company is stored on such remote places there are chances of security breaches. This fact discourages companies and users to adopt to cloud services. To counter this drawback, in this paper we propose a solution for this problem by providing an additional user layer for Microsoft Azure Documents. In our paper, we have used a supplement layer to the existing user layer in the browser. This layer encrypts the data before storing it on the server. Accessing the information is impossible without the right password.