Secure Information Sharing in a Collaboration Oriented Architecture

Abstract

In many critical real life applications information sharing confidentially in a collaborative environment has always been problematic. In today’s world which is driven by data and processed information, where information plays a highly critical role when it comes strategic decisions making and planning future organizational strategies, solid security architecture for information shared between multiple entities has become a highly critical factor and processing of those information and the security of those information has become a necessity.Currently third party developed applications been used to share critical information in most of the organizational structures but the level of trust that must be placed in those applications is often inadvisable and undesirable. This has been age old problem many solutions has been prevailed on this subject but little less known when it comes to confidential information sharing in collaborative environment which connects the physical world with the digital world. In this thesis we explore reliable techniques for distributed information sharing that are efficient, secure, and applicable to many situations.In a world that all most all the aspects are managed through digital technology, security of the information is very critical. Confidentiality, integrity, availability and accountability of information has become a necessity with rise of the cyber warfare.This research describes a way to share information and data in an open and collaborative environment with near perfect security.