Acrypt: Minimizing Data Leakage in Cloud Storage with Cryptography Encryption

Organisations today sign up for cloud storage systems from several service providers and rent access from storage spaces to application instead of owning their own computing infrastructure or data centres. However, like any other platform, the cloud infrastructure still remains vulnerable to data leakage. Thus, encryption plays a huge role in ensuring that any data that is uploaded, stored, and retrieved from the cloud remains safe. It is one of the security features that is very essential in cloud security as it locks and secures the data from being retracted by others that are not authorised. The proposed system will demonstrate how to securely encrypt files before sending them to the cloud and how an authorised user decrypts the data and retrieves it back. This proposed system is also meant to create awareness to internet users that data leakage is happening on a daily basis and jeopardises financially as well as personally to the victim.