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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,243 Views
40 Pages

26 March 2025

This paper proposes a novel hybrid metaheuristic, called JADEGMO, that combines the adaptive parameter control of adaptive differential evolution with optional external archive (JADE) with the search strategies of geometric mean optimizer (GMO). The...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Intelligent Algorithms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,463 Views
19 Pages

27 January 2026

Cloud storage continues to experience recurring provider-side breaches, raising concerns about the confidentiality and recoverability of user data. This study addresses this challenge by introducing an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven hybrid archi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,378 Views
24 Pages

A Hybrid Multi-Cloud Framework Using the IBBE Key Management System for Securing Data Storage

  • Manreet Sohal,
  • Salil Bharany,
  • Sandeep Sharma,
  • Mashael S. Maashi and
  • Mohammed Aljebreen

20 October 2022

Information storage and access in multi-cloud environments have become quite prevalent. In this paper, a multi-cloud framework is presented that secures users’ data. The primary goal of this framework is to secure users’ data from untrust...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Network Management for Sustainable Internet of Things)
  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,152 Views
43 Pages

Defending the Distributed Skies: A Comprehensive Literature Review of the Arena of Multi-Cloud Environment

  • Labib Hasan Bayzid,
  • Tonny Shekha Kar,
  • Mohammad Tariqul Islam,
  • Md. Shabiul Islam and
  • Firoz Ahmed

28 November 2025

The rapid implementation of multi-cloud architectures, such as the integration of services from multiple cloud providers, gives organizations enhanced flexibility, resilience, and vendor independence. However, the multi-cloud model presents complicat...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1,239 Views
28 Pages

12 June 2026

Multi-cloud is becoming more challenging to secure as traditional perimeter-based security models have a hard time protecting workloads running across multiple cloud platforms, identities, and services. To address this challenge, organizations are sh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity: Challenges and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
595 Views
27 Pages

This paper presents a systematic literature review examining how blockchain technologies can enhance the security and performance of multi-cloud systems. Multi-cloud architectures offer resilience, scalability, and flexibility; however, they also pos...

(This article belongs to the Section Blockchain Infrastructures and Enabled Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,857 Views
19 Pages

An Efficient Attribute-Based Encryption Scheme with Data Security Classification in the Multi-Cloud Environment

  • Guangcan Yang,
  • Peixuan Li,
  • Ke Xiao,
  • Yunhua He,
  • Gang Xu,
  • Chao Wang and
  • Xiubo Chen

13 October 2023

As an increasing number of people and corporations move their data to the cloud side, how to ensure efficient and secure access to data stored on the cloud side has become a key focus of current research. Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) is largely r...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,460 Views
16 Pages

AAAA: SSO and MFA Implementation in Multi-Cloud to Mitigate Rising Threats and Concerns Related to User Metadata

  • Muhammad Iftikhar Hussain,
  • Jingsha He,
  • Nafei Zhu,
  • Fahad Sabah,
  • Zulfiqar Ali Zardari,
  • Saqib Hussain and
  • Fahad Razque

27 March 2021

In the modern digital era, everyone is partially or fully integrated with cloud computing to access numerous cloud models, services, and applications. Multi-cloud is a blend of a well-known cloud model under a single umbrella to accomplish all the di...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cloud Computing Beyond)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,521 Views
13 Pages

Land Eco-Security Assessment Based on the Multi-Dimensional Connection Cloud Model

  • Qiuyan Liu,
  • Mingwu Wang,
  • Xiao Wang,
  • Fengqiang Shen and
  • Juliang Jin

20 June 2018

The evaluation of land eco-security is challenging because it is involved with various uncertainty factors. Although the normal cloud model provides an idea for dealing with the randomness and fuzziness of indicators for the evaluation of land eco-se...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Use of Soils and Water: the Role of Environmental Land Use Conflicts)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,025 Views
24 Pages

22 February 2026

Multi-tenancy is essential for scalable IoT–Cloud systems; however, it introduces complex security vulnerabilities at the intersection of shared cloud infrastructures and resource-constrained IoT environments. This systematic review evaluates n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,495 Views
19 Pages

IoT Security and Computation Management on a Multi-Robot System for Rescue Operations Based on a Cloud Framework

  • Swarnabha Roy,
  • Tony Vo,
  • Steven Hernandez,
  • Austin Lehrmann,
  • Asad Ali and
  • Stavros Kalafatis

26 July 2022

There is a growing body of literature that recognizes the importance of Multi-Robot coordination and Modular Robotics. This work evaluates the secure coordination of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) via a drone simulation in Unity and an Unmanned Gro...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,069 Views
28 Pages

Dew Computing and Asymmetric Security Framework for Big Data File Sharing

  • Parinya Suwansrikham,
  • She Kun,
  • Shaukat Hayat and
  • Jehoiada Jackson

Due to the advancement of technology, devices generate huge working files at a rapid rate. These data, which are of considerable scale and are created very fast, can be called big data. Keeping such files in one storage device is impossible. Therefor...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,872 Views
6 Pages

Multi-Level Cloud Datacenter Security Using Efficient Hybrid Algorithm

  • Koushik Chakraborty,
  • Amrita Parashar,
  • Pawan Bhambu,
  • Durga Prasad Tripathi,
  • Pratap Patil and
  • Gaurav Kumar Srivastav

14 December 2023

Security is currently the main boundary for cloud-based administrations. It is not adequate to just consolidate the cloud by adding a couple of additional controls or component answers for your current organization security programming. Businesses mu...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of Eng. Proc., 2023, RAiSE-2023)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,848 Views
16 Pages

By nature, some jobs are always in closed environments and employees may stay for long periods. This is the case for many professional activities such as military watch tours of borders, civilian buildings and facilities that need efficient control p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
178 Views
18 Pages

Multi-Objective Security-Aware Workflow Scheduling with Soft Deadlines in Hybrid Clouds

  • Xinrong Zhan,
  • Junwen Lu,
  • Xiaodong Wang,
  • Liang Su and
  • Hangqi Zhang

1 October 2026

Hybrid clouds allow service providers to combine secure private resources with elastic public resources, but most schedulers still have three practical limitations: they commonly model task security as a binary constraint, focus on independent tasks...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communications Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,874 Views
23 Pages

Multi-Objective Optimization of a Task-Scheduling Algorithm for a Secure Cloud

  • Wei Li,
  • Qi Fan,
  • Fangfang Dang,
  • Yuan Jiang,
  • Haomin Wang,
  • Shuai Li and
  • Xiaoliang Zhang

15 February 2022

As more and more power information systems are gradually deployed to cloud servers, the task scheduling of a secure cloud is facing challenges. Optimizing the scheduling strategy only from a single aspect cannot meet the needs of power business. At t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,040 Views
13 Pages

29 July 2020

Cloud has become one of the most widely used technologies to store data due to its availability, flexibility, and low cost. At the same time, the security, integrity, and privacy of data that needs to be stored on the cloud is the primary threat for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
83 Citations
18,807 Views
24 Pages

Strengthening Cloud Security: An Innovative Multi-Factor Multi-Layer Authentication Framework for Cloud User Authentication

  • Ayman Mohamed Mostafa,
  • Mohamed Ezz,
  • Murtada K. Elbashir,
  • Meshrif Alruily,
  • Eslam Hamouda,
  • Mohamed Alsarhani and
  • Wael Said

30 September 2023

Cloud multi-factor authentication is a critical security measure that helps strengthen cloud security from unauthorized access and data breaches. Multi-factor authentication verifies that authentic cloud users are only authorized to access cloud apps...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cloud Computing: Privacy Protection and Data Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,802 Views
26 Pages

Public Authentic-Replica Sampling Mechanism in Distributed Storage Environments

  • Jiale Ye,
  • Yongmei Bai,
  • Jiang Xu,
  • Shitao Huang,
  • Zhaoyang Han and
  • Wei Wan

23 October 2024

With the rapid development of wireless communication and big data analysis technologies, the storage of massive amounts of data relies on third-party trusted storage, such as cloud storage. However, once data are stored on third-party servers, data o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Methods Applied to Security and Privacy Problems, Volume II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,603 Views
24 Pages

11 October 2025

As rail transit systems advance toward greater automation and intelligence, cloud computing technology, with its remarkable scalability and robust data processing capabilities, has been steadily expanding its footprint in this domain. However, the ad...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,793 Views
24 Pages

Internet of Things (IoT) technology in healthcare has enabled innovative services that enhance patient monitoring, diagnostics and medical data management. However, securing sensitive health data while maintaining system efficiency of resource-constr...

(This article belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,655 Views
14 Pages

AAJS: An Anti-Malicious Attack Graphic Similarity Judgment System in Cloud Computing Environments

  • Xin Liu,
  • Xiaomeng Liu,
  • Neal Xiong,
  • Dan Luo,
  • Gang Xu and
  • Xiubo Chen

With the rapid development of cloud computing and other modern technologies, collaborative computing between data is increasing, and privacy protection and secure multi-party computation are also attracting more attention. The emergence of cloud comp...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
191 Views
22 Pages

When Does Representation Learning Help Attack-Path Forecasting? A Controlled Multi-Cloud Study with CAPTURE-MC

  • Salam Al-E’mari,
  • Yousef Sanjalawe,
  • Muder Almiani and
  • Mohammad A. Alsharaiah

14 October 2026

Cloud defenders increasingly want to anticipate an attacker’s next move, not merely detect the last one. We study attack-path forecasting in multi-cloud environments: given the partial trace of an in-progress campaign, predict the next ATT&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,003 Views
24 Pages

Manual compliance auditing in cloud environments consumes up to 40% of IT security budgets annually, yet existing approaches verify control presence rather than effectiveness, leaving institutions vulnerable to adversarial evasion. This paper present...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Cybersecurity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,603 Views
35 Pages

DACCA: Distributed Adaptive Cloud Continuum Architecture

  • Nektarios Deligiannakis,
  • Vassilis Papataxiarhis,
  • Michalis Loukeris,
  • Stathes Hadjiefthymiades,
  • Marios Touloupou,
  • Syed Mafooq Ul Hassan,
  • Herodotos Herodotou,
  • Thanasis Moustakas,
  • Emmanouil Bampis and
  • Pablo Strasser
  • + 8 authors

1 February 2026

Recently, the need for unified orchestration frameworks that can manage extremely heterogeneous, distributed, and resource-constrained environments has emerged due to the rapid development of cloud, edge, and IoT computing. Kubernetes and other tradi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Scalable and Distributed Cloud Continuum Orchestration for Next-Generation IoT Applications: Latest Advances and Prospects—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,575 Views
18 Pages

20 September 2023

This study introduces a multi-cloud model that combines private and public cloud services for processing and managing satellite images. The multi-cloud service is established by incorporating private clouds within organizations and integrating them w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
866 Views
30 Pages

20 January 2026

The entire system collapses due to the issues of inadequate centralized storage capacity, poor scalability, low storage efficiency, and susceptibility to single point of failure brought on by huge power consumption data in the smart grid; thus, an al...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security and Privacy in Blockchains and the IoT—3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
392 Views
18 Pages

2 July 2026

Secure and efficient spatial range query over encrypted outsourced vector data remains a challenging issue, particularly for polyline and polygon data. Existing schemes primarily focus on point data and have not been properly extended to more complex...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technology of Information Security and Privacy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,424 Views
23 Pages

DS-GAC: A Data-Sharing Scheme Based on Group Attribute Characteristics

  • Zhangbing Li,
  • Jiantian Xiao,
  • Mingyu Xiao and
  • Shaobo Zhang

12 February 2025

Data sharing has dramatically promoted the efficient use of data resources. The target sharing of confidential data is increasingly becoming urgent for enterprises or organizations to solve business problems, such as data sharing between group users...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Network Security and Cryptography Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,211 Views
20 Pages

Secured and Privacy-Preserving Multi-Authority Access Control System for Cloud-Based Healthcare Data Sharing

  • Reetu Gupta,
  • Priyesh Kanungo,
  • Nirmal Dagdee,
  • Golla Madhu,
  • Kshira Sagar Sahoo,
  • N. Z. Jhanjhi,
  • Mehedi Masud,
  • Nabil Sharaf Almalki and
  • Mohammed A. AlZain

27 February 2023

With continuous advancements in Internet technology and the increased use of cryptographic techniques, the cloud has become the obvious choice for data sharing. Generally, the data are outsourced to cloud storage servers in encrypted form. Access con...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,576 Views
20 Pages

A Secure Key Aggregate Searchable Encryption with Multi Delegation in Cloud Data Sharing Service

  • JoonYoung Lee,
  • MyeongHyun Kim,
  • JiHyeon Oh,
  • YoungHo Park,
  • KiSung Park and
  • Sungkee Noh

23 September 2021

As the amount of data generated in various distributed environments is rapidly increasing, cloud servers and computing technologies are attracting considerable attention. However, the cloud server has privacy issues, including personal information an...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,523 Views
18 Pages

Multi-Objective Seagull Optimization Algorithm with Deep Learning-Enabled Vulnerability Detection for Secure Cloud Environments

  • Mohammed Aljebreen,
  • Manal Abdullah Alohali,
  • Hany Mahgoub,
  • Sumayh S. Aljameel,
  • Albandari Alsumayt and
  • Ahmed Sayed

24 November 2023

Cloud computing (CC) is an internet-enabled environment that provides computing services such as networking, databases, and servers to clients and organizations in a cost-effective manner. Despite the benefits rendered by CC, its security remains a p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security and Privacy in Cloud Computing Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,087 Views
11 Pages

15 December 2019

Edge computing is a distributed computing paradigm that encompasses data computing and storage and is performed close to the user, efficiently guaranteeing faster response time. This paradigm plays a pivotal role in the world of the Internet of Thing...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
6,312 Views
17 Pages

HealthyBroker: A Trustworthy Blockchain-Based Multi-Cloud Broker for Patient-Centered eHealth Services

  • Heba Kurdi,
  • Shada Alsalamah,
  • Asma Alatawi,
  • Sara Alfaraj,
  • Lina Altoaimy and
  • Syed Hassan Ahmed

Delivering electronic health care (eHealth) services across multi-cloud providers to implement patient-centric care demands a trustworthy brokering architecture. Specifically, such an architecture should aggregate relevant medical information to allo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internet of Things (IoT)-Based Wireless Health: Enabling Technologies and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,143 Views
17 Pages

7 August 2024

Cloud computing, as the most widely applied and prominent domain of distributed systems, has brought numerous advantages to users, including high resource sharing efficiency, strong availability, and excellent scalability. However, the complexity of...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,224 Views
22 Pages

Ontologies in Cloud Computing—Review and Future Directions

  • JohnBosco Agbaegbu,
  • Oluwasefunmi Tale Arogundade,
  • Sanjay Misra and
  • Robertas Damaševičius

26 November 2021

Cloud computing as a technology has the capacity to enhance cooperation, scalability, accessibility, and offers discount prospects using improved and effective computing, and this capability helps organizations to stay focused. Ontologies are used to...

(This article belongs to the Section Network Virtualization and Edge/Fog Computing)
  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
11,052 Views
21 Pages

21 March 2025

Enterprise networking optimization has become crucial recently due to increasing demand for a secure, adaptable, reliable, and interoperable network infrastructure. Novel techniques to optimize network security and toimprove scalability and efficienc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,074 Views
26 Pages

Today, cloud computing is a widely used technology that provides a wide range of services to numerous sectors around the world. This technology depends on the interaction and cooperation of virtual machines (VMs) to complete various computing tasks,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances and New Challenges in Coupled Systems and Networks: Theory, Modelling, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,202 Views
43 Pages

3 April 2026

Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) has emerged as a fundamental paradigm for securing cloud-native and distributed computing environments. However, existing ZTNA implementations remain largely limited by static policy enforcement and opaque machine-lea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Network Security and Data Privacy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,529 Views
22 Pages

Malicious Cloud Service Traffic Detection Based on Multi-Feature Fusion

  • Zhouguo Chen,
  • Chen Deng,
  • Xiang Gao,
  • Xinze Li and
  • Hangyu Hu

With the rapid growth of cloud computing, malicious attacks targeting cloud services have become increasingly sophisticated and prevalent. To address the limitations of traditional detection methods—such as reliance on single-dimensional featur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in AI-Driven Cybersecurity and Securing AI Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,337 Views
10 Pages

Searchable encryption technology enables users to access data that has been made publicly encrypted without divulging the original content. The majority of the currently available multi-user certificateless searchable encryption technologies are base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,861 Views
25 Pages

Orchestrating Heterogeneous Devices and AI Services as Virtual Sensors for Secure Cloud-Based IoT Applications

  • Sebastian Alberternst,
  • Alexander Anisimov,
  • Andre Antakli,
  • Benjamin Duppe,
  • Hilko Hoffmann,
  • Michael Meiser,
  • Muhammad Muaz,
  • Daniel Spieldenner and
  • Ingo Zinnikus

12 November 2021

The concept of the cloud-to-thing continuum addresses advancements made possible by the widespread adoption of cloud, edge, and IoT resources. It opens the possibility of combining classical symbolic AI with advanced machine learning approaches in a...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
11,356 Views
29 Pages

Software-as-a-Service Security Challenges and Best Practices: A Multivocal Literature Review

  • Mamoona Humayun,
  • Mahmood Niazi,
  • Maram Fahhad Almufareh,
  • N. Z. Jhanjhi,
  • Sajjad Mahmood and
  • Mohammad Alshayeb

14 April 2022

Cloud computing (CC) is the delivery of computing services on demand and is charged using a “pay per you use” policy. Of the multiple services offered by CC, SaaS is the most popular and widely adapted service platform and is used by bill...

  • Review
  • Open Access
89 Citations
17,634 Views
36 Pages

Secure Cloud Infrastructure: A Survey on Issues, Current Solutions, and Open Challenges

  • Yara Alghofaili,
  • Albatul Albattah,
  • Noura Alrajeh,
  • Murad A. Rassam and
  • Bander Ali Saleh Al-rimy

27 September 2021

Cloud computing is currently becoming a well-known buzzword in which business titans, such as Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, among others, are at the forefront in developing and providing sophisticated cloud computing systems to their users in a cost...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Information Security and Privacy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,285 Views
19 Pages

13 November 2025

Risk assessment is critical for securing and sustaining operational resilience in cloud computing. Traditional approaches often rely on single-objective or subjective weighting methods, limiting their accuracy and adaptability to dynamic cloud condit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cloud Computing and Big Data Mining)
  • Article
  • Open Access
244 Citations
52,388 Views
35 Pages

Cloud Computing Security: A Survey

  • Issa M. Khalil,
  • Abdallah Khreishah and
  • Muhammad Azeem

3 February 2014

Cloud computing is an emerging technology paradigm that migrates current technological and computing concepts into utility-like solutions similar to electricity and water systems. Clouds bring out a wide range of benefits including configurable compu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,577 Views
24 Pages

16 June 2025

Among searchable encryption techniques, multi-user dynamic searchable encryption (MUDSE) schemes are an important research direction. After the data owner transfers data to the cloud, it may be necessary to authorize different users to access some or...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence for Network Security and IoT Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,207 Views
20 Pages

Cloud-Assisted Private Set Intersection via Multi-Key Fully Homomorphic Encryption

  • Cunqun Fan,
  • Peiheng Jia,
  • Manyun Lin,
  • Lan Wei,
  • Peng Guo,
  • Xiangang Zhao and
  • Ximeng Liu

8 April 2023

With the development of cloud computing and big data, secure multi-party computation, which can collaborate with multiple parties to deal with a large number of transactions, plays an important role in protecting privacy. Private set intersection (PS...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Mathematical Methods in Intelligent Multimedia: Security and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,288 Views
20 Pages

Secure Nearest Neighbor Query on Crowd-Sensing Data

  • Ke Cheng,
  • Liangmin Wang and
  • Hong Zhong

22 September 2016

Nearest neighbor queries are fundamental in location-based services, and secure nearest neighbor queries mainly focus on how to securely and quickly retrieve the nearest neighbor in the outsourced cloud server. However, the previous big data system s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data and Cloud Computing for Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,947 Views
19 Pages

In recent years, many companies have chosen to outsource data and other data computation tasks to cloud service providers to reduce costs and increase efficiency. However, there are risks of security and privacy breaches when users outsource data to...

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