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Multi-Factor Authentication through Integration with IMS System

2020; Volume: 8; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.30534/ijeter/2020/14812020

2347-3983

JKR Sastry,

Digital Rights Management and Security

The main concern for the customers and the organizations to use services offered by Cloud computing providers is the confidentiality and security of the data stored using the sharable infrastructure.Customers also want to use the support provided by the service providers according to their application requirements, which leads to the configuration of the infrastructure provided to the customers as per their requirements.Most of the cloud computing services provided are rigid and do not allow customers to make changes.Users have options to use Open source-based cloud computing systems such as OpenStack, but these platforms to suffer from various weaknesses especially exposing the vulnerabilities attacked.OpenStack open-source cloud computing systems are frequently being used by many users who want to build a cloud computing infrastructure on their own for either private or public purposes.A dedicated component "Keystone" of OpenStack used for providing security to the resources provisioned and used by the users through processes that are related to authentication, authorization, access control and data security.Keystone uses Ferment Tokens for Authentication and Authorization which exposes much vulnerability.Many authentication systems are in use such as Active Directory System, Integrated Management System etc.The use of such order within the Cloud Computing Architecture helps to implement a high level of security to the user programs and Data.Multi-Factor systems used for implementing high-level security which takes benefit of two authentication systems which are interconnected, while one system being native, the other could be an external authentication system such as ADDS or IMS.In this paper, a Multi-factor based authentication system implemented that focuses on integrating the "Keystone" based authentication system achieved within OpenStack, and Integrated identity Management System applied within the RED Hat Operating System.