ADDRESSING THE CLOUD COMPUTING SECURITY MENACE

Abha Thakral Sachdev, Mohit Bhansali

Abstract: Cloud Computing is fast gaining popularity today with its scalable, flexible and on-demand service provision. It brings cost saving and agility to organization with pay-as-you-go approach. Abundant resources are available and the user has a huge range to select from. Cloud facilitates virtualization, simplification, automation and accelerated delivery of application and services for a sustainable business advantage. As much as the technological benefit, cloud computing also has security issues. Security in cloud computing is essential for providing quality of service. In this paper we address security issues which concern cloud computing environment today. We analyze Cloud Computing and security menace it faces due to different threats.

Keywords: Cloud Computing, Cloud Service Provider (CSP), Cloud Security, Cloud User, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, StaaS

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2013.0202007