Ten Security Concerns to be Kept in Mind While Accessing Cloud

Abstract

Cloud computing is a promising development, deployment and delivery model in information technology sector across the globe. The burgeoning cloud computing model attempts to tackle the hotheaded growth of web-connected devices and handles gigantic amount of data. Security factor plays a key role in cloud computing. There is a critical need to securely store, manage, share and analyze huge amounts of complex data to resolve patterns and trends in order to improve the quality of realistic applications. Because of the critical nature of the applications, it is vital that clouds be secure. The major security confront with cloud computing is that the end user may not have control over the data and doesn't know where the data is actually stored. Providing security is quite complex in cloud because it comprises of various technologies, storage devices, platforms and so on. In this paper we discuss the major security issues for the data stored in cloud and its concerns, services and finally solutions for the security.