A Study on Security Challenges, Threats and Vulnerabilities in Cloud Computing

Cloud computing has recently evolved as a new paradigm for hosting and delivering services over the internet. It moves the application software and data to be centralized to large centers where the pool of data and information is maintained by the cloud providers. Also cloud services are simpler to acquire and scale up and down. Cloud computing security is the key driving force for information security in the software industry. Even though cloud computing is efficient and promising, there are many challenges for data security as the cloud user does not know the location of the data. There are challenges faced by both the cloud providers and consumers. Cloud providers must ensure that consumer's data is protected. Consumers must have confidence that the integrity, confidentiality, privacy, availability, identity and access management of their data is guaranteed. It is important to understand the levels at which there can be security vulnerabilities. In our opinion virtual infrastructure, storage and data access vulnerabilities are the foremost challenges. The objective of this article is to provide an analysis of the security and privacy challenges significant to cloud computing