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Garry Meaburn

Jeeban Panigrahi

There is provided a method of securely processing data in a third-party cloud environment, and a secure portion of a third-party cloud environment configured to perform the method. The method comprises providing, from a user to the third-party cloud environment, computer executable code configured to process protected data input into the third-party cloud environment, and storing the computer executable code in a secure portion of the third-party cloud environment which is under the control of a secure provider; providing, from the secure provider to the third-party cloud environment, protected data and storing the protected data within the secure portion; executing, in the secure portion of the third-party cloud environment, the computer executable code so as to process the protected data solely within the secure portion of the third-party cloud environment and generate output data; and restricting, via the secure portion, the user from retrieving output data from the secure portion of the third-party cloud environment.

Secure data processing in a third-party cloud environment

A computer implemented method for resolving a Domain Name System, DNS, query received at a third party cloud computing environment comprises: receiving a DNS query at the third party cloud computing environment. The DNS query is forwarded to a sinkhole DNS server if the DNS query comprises an unauthorised domain name. The DNS query is forwarded to a default DNS server of the third party cloud computing environment if the DNS query does not comprise an unauthorised domain name.

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Garry Meaburn