Security techniques for data protection in cloud computing

Abstract

Cloud computing has a lot of security issues that are gaining great attention nowadays, including the data protection, network security, virtualization security, application integrity, and identity management. Data protection is one of the most important security issues, because organizations won’t transfer its data to remote machines if there is no guaranteed data protection from the cloud service providers. Many techniques are suggested for data protection in cloud computing, but there are still a lot of challenges in this subject. The most popular security techniques include SSL (Secure Socket Layer) Encryption, Intrusion Detection System; Multi Tenancy based Access Control, etc. Goal of this paper is to analyze and evaluate the most important security techniques for data protection in cloud computing. Furthermore, security techniques for data protection will be recommended in order to have improved security in cloud computing.