Menangsosang Pongen
Cloud computing have been widely adopted into the mainstream than any other technology in the domain. According to Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), over 70 percent of the world’s businesses now operate – at least in part – on the cloud. This adoption has been fueled mainly by the ever-increasing number of smartphones and mobile devices that can access the internet. Cloud computing is not just for organizations and businesses; it’s also useful for the average person as well. It enables us to run software programs without installing them on our computers; it enables us to store and access our multimedia content via the internet, it enables us to develop and test programs without necessarily having servers and so on. As such, security has been one of the most challenging issues for the IT executives particularly in cloud implementation. In fact, numerous security challenges face the cloud as it encompasses many technologies including networks, databases, operating systems, virtualization, resource scheduling, transaction management, load balancing, concurrency control and memory management. Therefore, security issues for many of these systems and technologies are applicable to cloud computing. In this paper, I have surveyed several research work on the security issues of cloud computing. The goal of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the security challenges currently facing cloud computing and determine different approaches and solutions which have been adopted by the cloud service industry.
Cloud Computing, Cloud Service.