Security Issues and Challenges in Big Data Analytics in Distributed Environment

Abstract

Cloud Computing is an international collection of hardware and software from thousands of computer network. It permits digital information to be shared and distributed at very less cost and very fast to use. Cloud is attacked by viruses, worms, hackers, and cybercrimes. Attackers try to steal confidential information, interrupt services, and cause damage to the enterprise cloud computing network. The survey focuses on various attacks on cloud security and their countermeasures. Existing taxonomies have been widely documented in the literature. They provide a systematic way of understanding, identifying, and addressing security risks. This paper presents taxonomy of cloud security attacks and potential risk assessment with the aim of providing an in depth understanding of security requirements in the cloud environment. A review revealed that previous papers have not accounted for all the aspects of risk assessment and security attacks. The risk elements which are not dealt elaborately in other works are also identified, classified, quantified, and prioritized. This paper provides an overview of conceptual cloud attack and risk assessment taxonomy.