Understanding Cloud Computing Security Problems

Abstract

Cloud Computing (CC) is elastic, affordable, and tested delivery platform for rendering IT services (i.e. Platform-as-a-Service, Software-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service) to consumers by means of Internet medium. This emerging technology poses certain degree of danger due to the fact that substantial services are frequently outsourced to a third party, hence becoming difficult to preserve data privacy, security, control and availability. In single or multi-cloud, services (PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS) may require migration from one cloud to another, which may become challenging to procure security problems among the two clouds. CC merges a number of different technologies i.e. Web 2.0, virtualization and SOA, which in return acquires their security problems. In this article, we analyze diverse security problems found in CC by discovering the primary vulnerabilities and significant threats encountered from cloud service models (PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS) architectural design and other different areas related to CC and its surround.

Deep learning and literature-based experience on the design and architectural perspectives of the cloud service model method has been employed to discover and analyze the possible security problems that reside on cloud services. The potential result of our work is a detailed possible vulnerabilities and threats that frequently appear to be the main sources of cloud security problems. Based on our results, cloud developer, designer, and providers are now aware of where to put much effort to eliminate and procure security problems for many to adopt cloud services.