A Survey on Security Threats for Cloud Computing & How to Overcome these Challenges

Cloud computing allows consumers and businesses to use applications without installation and access their personal files at any computer with internet access. Cloud Computing allows firms to outsource their entire information technology (IT) process, allowing them to concentrate more on their core business to enhance their productivity and innovation in offering services to customers. It allows businesses to cut down heavy cost through optimized and efficient computing incurred over IT infrastructure without losing focus on customer needs. However, to a certain limit adopting Cloud computing has struggled to grow among many established and growing organizations due to several security and privacy related issues. Though the cloud computing has its advantages many IT companies have expresses concern about critical security issues which threatens them such as data security, unauthorized access of network and use of infected application. Due to the use of internet and vital remote servers to maintain the data and applications, the cloud computing environment becomes open for the attackers to attack on the user data and communication services. This paper provides review of major security threats and vulnerabilities affecting Cloud Systems and the possible solutions available to such threats.