Analysis of Privacy Challenges and Security Concerns in Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is a method to enhance the capacity dynamically without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software. It can be viewed as a cost effective solution to various security threats. It extends the existing capabilities of Electronics and Communication world and its ongoing capabilities. In the last few years, cloud computing has grown from being a promising business concept to one of the fast growing segments of the Communication industry at large. But as more and more information on individuals and companies are added in the cloud, concerns are beginning to grow about just “how safe” an environment it is. Despite of all the hype surrounding the cloud, enterprise customers are still hesitating to deploy their business in the cloud. Security is one of the major concern which curbs the growth of cloud computing and complications with data privacy/security and data protection continue to plague the market. In this paper, a survey of the different security risks that pose a concern to the cloud is presented. This paper is a survey more specific to the different security issues that has emanated due to the nature of the service delivery models of a cloud computing system. Keywords— Iaas, Paas, Saas, SSL