ABSTRACT

In recent times, most enterprise and organizations use the internet based security systems with user information such as username and password as the login details, for security and access authentication purposes in file sharing and distribution. However, this information can often be easily captured by hackers and unauthorized users who may edit, modify, delete or otherwise corrupt the file leading to loss in confidentiality, integrity and availability. The observed shortfall led to this research; to develop a file sharing platform that is not just reliable in terms of security but is very easy to use and economical. A carefully designed software-based platform that enables file sharing as large as 2gigs between users in an intranet networked environment using the Wifi-Hotspot technology. The platform was realized using a combination of the PHP, Java script, HTML in creating the different modules of the platform and the multi security layers while the Xampp provided the design database and local host. In achieving this, organizations were understudied to ascertain the root of information insecurity through the use of questionnaire and direct oral interviews. Data collected from the interview was used as a basis for the development of the platform. The obtained responses from the questionnaire were analyzed using the statistical standard deviation relation. The result obtained shows that there is a significant increase in file security as the number of security layers increases. The understudied security parameters increased significantly (Data confidentiality 48-87%, Data availability 40-92% and Data integrity 50-84%). Hence the need for the development of the system cannot be overemphasized.