An analysis of security issues for cloud computing

Cloud Computing is a flexible, cost-effective, and proven delivery platform for providing business or consumer IT services over the Internet. However, cloud Computing presents an added level of risk because essential services are often outsourced to a third party, which makes it harder to maintain d...

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Published in:Journal of internet services and applications 2013-01, Vol.4 (1), p.5-5
Main Authors: Hashizume, Keiko, Rosado, David G, Fernández-Medina, Eduardo, Fernandez, Eduardo B
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Computer Applications
Computer Communication Networks
Computer Science
Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks
Information Systems and Communication Service
IT in Business
Processor Architectures
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Summary:Cloud Computing is a flexible, cost-effective, and proven delivery platform for providing business or consumer IT services over the Internet. However, cloud Computing presents an added level of risk because essential services are often outsourced to a third party, which makes it harder to maintain data security and privacy, support data and service availability, and demonstrate compliance. Cloud Computing leverages many technologies (SOA, virtualization, Web 2.0); it also inherits their security issues, which we discuss here, identifying the main vulnerabilities in this kind of systems and the most important threats found in the literature related to Cloud Computing and its environment as well as to identify and relate vulnerabilities and threats with possible solutions.
ISSN:1867-4828
1869-0238
1869-0238
DOI:10.1186/1869-0238-4-5