Security

Innovative and built on cloud services is the Secure Documents SaaS application provided by 7bulls.com. 7bulls.com is an experienced ICT company that specializes in developing innovative services and systems based on the cloud. Secure Documents enables full, secure document workflow, using the most advanced encryption with distributed, asymmetric keys.

The unique value of this application is distributed key handling, such that the complete key is not stored in one place. It means that only users can access their own documents. Administrators and other high-privilege users have no access to the documents stored in the system, as the encryption keys are not passed to the application. Such an approach requires very high computational power to perform all encryption operations. Also the usage pattern for the application is not constant, as there are both peak and low usage periods. In that case, both on-premise and typical cloud deployment have to be over sized most of the time, to be able to handle the peaks of application usage.

 The exceptional value of the application is its distributed key handling, so that the entire key is not stored in one place.  Only users can access their own documents. Administrators and other high-performance users do not have access to the documents stored in the system, because the encryption keys are not transferred to the application.  This requires enormous processing power to perform all encryption operations. Also, the usage pattern of the application is not constant, as there are both peak and low usage periods.  In that case, both on-premise and typical cloud deployment have to be over sized most of the time, to be able to handle the peaks of application usage.

The MELODIC platform allows for the multi-cloud, dynamic, runtime optimization. By deploying the Secure Documents applications via MELODIC, we have the benefits of dynamically managed and optimized cloud resources, due to the usage of the models@runtime method, near real time optimization. MELODIC allows to select the best deployment offer from multiple cloud providers and even more, allows to dynamically manage the application deployment. This means that:

• in case of rising usage of the application, extra resources are allocated,
• in case of lower application usage, the extra, unneeded resources are decommissioned.