Role of Cryptography & its Related Techniques in Cloud Computing Security

Abstract

Cloud Computing is a fast-growing area and its security issues block the prevalence widely. The organizations are lethargic in accepting it due to these issues and challenges associated with it. Security is the most important concern in cloud computing including the data protection, network security, virtualization security, application integrity, and identity management. Data protection is one of the most important among these issues. The major reason is, organizations will transfer their data to remote machines if and only if the cloud service providers provide guaranteed data protection. Even though many techniques are proposed/recommended for security in cloud computing, however, there are still a lot of challenges in this area. One of the most popular techniques is Cryptography, which can be used in addressing the security issues. The various techniques/algorithms in it playing a vital role in addressing the security issues. This paper enlightens the role of Cryptography, and its various techniques that are helpful in addressing the cloud security issues, in which our research would be focusing.