A review of security risk assessment methods in cloud computing

Abstract

The Cloud computing is a major technological trend that continues to evolve and flourish. It has potential benefits in achieving rapid and scalable resource provisioning capabilities as well as resource sharing. However, a number of security risk are emerging in association with cloud usage that need to be assessed before cloud computing is adopted. This paper presents a review of the security risk assessment methods in cloud computing. The paper aims to summarize, organize and classify the information available in the literature to identify any gaps in current research then suggest areas for further investigation. At the end, the paper suggests to have a collaborative security risk assessment method that will add great assistance to both service providers and consumers. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.