Cloud Computing: Issues and Security Challenges

Abstract

Cloud computing is a model that provides computing services through internet on demand and pay per use access to a varied number of shared resources such as storage, services, servers, networksetc. without accessing them physically. It is cost effective. As cloud computing has increased the standard of digital life, it has however increased the security risk as all the information is presented over an open source which can be breached. Cloud computing influences many technologies but it also pulls in the security issues which withstand with these technologies and helps to identify the vulnerabilities in any system and most importantly the threats that are included in cloud computing environment as well as to identify the possible solutions which is the point of discussion in this paper.

Keywords: cloud computing; security; data integrity; authentication; CSP(cloud service provider).