Enhancing Data Privacy in Cloud Computing: Protecting Personal Data in the Cloud

Abstract

Cloud computing revolutionized data storage along with processing through its ability to provide effortless access to computation systems. The protection of data privacy together with maintaining security standards continues to pose substantial difficulties particularly within clouds that handle personal sensitive information. This investigation demonstrates the execution of privacy-assured methods through homomorphic encryption for securing personal data storage and processing on cloud systems. The research design implemented a systematic method that included first collecting data followed by encryption then moving to secure cloud storage before encrypted computation and result encryption before finally performing decryption. Through RBAC access controls and MFA authentication and TLS encryption methods the study reinforced access security in line with HIPAA and GDPR. The homomorphic encryption system facilitated secure data processing of encrypted information without exposing original informational values thus creating cloud-friendly privacy solutions.