SERVICES, SECURITY CHALLENGES AND SECURITY POLICIES IN CLOUD COMPUTING

Dattatray B. Pawar, A. S. Devare

Abstract: Cloud computing is becoming most emerging trend in IT industry. With its potential growth and lucrative services cloud computing has acquired mass market in the industry large enterprises running their business on the cloud. A greater acceptance of public cloud by various businesses has given it a wide popularity, strengthening of public cloud security is big milestone. The public cloud acceptance is increasing along with the trust in public cloud at large extent. As the security is most vital factor in the cloud. Handovering data to the cloud service provider keeps cloud user tensed. Different threats have been discovered in recent years. Database security in public cloud raised some critical issues for cloud service provider. This rapid adaptation to the clouds, have increased concerns on a critical issue for successive growth of communication technology and information security. From a cloud security perspective, a number of unexplored risks and challenges are faced by cloud because of migration, causing degradation of the effectiveness of traditional protection mechanisms

Keywords: Cloud computing, Cloud DBaaS, public cloud, Cloud Security, Confidentiality, Trust, Encryption

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0312008