• A. Aditya
• G. Gayathri
• CH. Sampath
• P. Sunil kumar
• A. Akhilesh

Cyber crime has become a dangerous threat to all the technical users and layman. Due to lack of skill on using the secured means in the data communication, many users as well as organizations are suffering. As we know that India is moving a step ahead in technical aspects, which is enhancing and improving the concept “Digital India”, but we must intensify the concept to “Secure Digital India” where we can see no data breaches, no malicious attacks and no cyber terrorism. Security in transmission through the public channels, storage of digital images has its importance in today's image communications and confidential video conferencing. Because of expanding use in sharing the images in the daily social life, it is essential to protect the confidential image data from unauthorized access. Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), a block cipher based algorithm is a well famous methodology making several advantages in data encryption. We are doing a hybrid approach for image security that combines both encryption of the image data and hiding the encrypted data into another image through steganography. The research helps layman to share the images into the public channels without getting compromised.

Cryptography, Steganography, Encryption, Decryption, AES, LSB, Hiding-Extracting, Cyber security, Image security, Cyber threats.

"A HYBRID APPROACH FOR IMAGE SECURITY BY COMBINING ENCRYPTION AND STEGANOGRAPHY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 4, page no.23-32, April-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2004204.pdf

"A HYBRID APPROACH FOR IMAGE SECURITY BY COMBINING ENCRYPTION AND STEGANOGRAPHY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 4, page no. pp23-32, April-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2004204.pdf