Recent Trends in Cloud Computing Security Issues and Their Mitigation

Recent Trends in Cloud Computing Security Issues and Their Mitigation

G. M. Siddesh, K. G. Srinivasa, L. Tejaswini
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 33
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5634-3.ch079
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Abstract

Security in cloud is to be increased to strengthen the confidence and trust of cloud service consumers. In the upcoming years, the scientific research and education teams will have to investigate finding new ways to handle the issue of cloud security. This chapter discusses the major threats and their impact on clouds, security measures to handle the attacks in clouds, security as a service in research and education, and steps to enhance security feature in clouds.
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2. Major Factors That Impact Cloud Security

Some of the major factors that have an impact on Cloud security are listed below:

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    Attackers and Threats: Beware, cybercrime is on the rise. Hackers not only create threats but also are targeting attacks on software and platform technologies for their personal gains.

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    IT Consumerized: Since the IT sector is consumerized, employees tend to use their personally owned devices such as mobiles and laptops to access applications, data and cloud services. This might make a dent on the security system.

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    Architectural Technologies: With virtualization growth and use of public cloud perimeter and their controls within the data center are no longer easily constrained or physically isolated nor protected.

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    Dynamic and Challenging Regulatory Environment: Since organization face a lot of burden of legal and regulatory compliance which are prescriptive demands and face very high penalties for non-compliances and breaches.

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