CLOUD SECURITY RESEARCH- A COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY

Abstract

Cloud computing is a new computing paradigm that delivers computing resources as a set of reliable and scalable internet-based services allowing customers to remotely run and manage the services. It is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g. networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. Cloud Computing is an abstraction based on the idea of pooling physical resources and presenting them as virtual resources. It is indeed a novel model for provisioning resources, staging applications, and platform independent consumer access to services. The major concern of the use of Cloud services is security because many attackers constantly try to take advantage of vulnerabilities in mobile networks to access data stored in the remote cloud servers. Certifying the security of cloud computing is a major task in the cloud computing environment. This paper summarizes a number of peer-reviewed articles on security threats in cloud computing and the preventive methods. The objective of our research is to understand the cloud components, security issues, and risks, along with emerging solutions that may potentially mitigate the vulnerabilities in the cloud.