Security concerns in cloud Computing: the Transition from a private cloud to a public cloud

Cloud computing if not other reasons has been attributed for providing an opportunity and rather a level playing field where it makes small and medium enterprises acquire and operate the scale of IT technological advancements, which are normally found in large organizations alone. As long as the applications are run in an organization in a private cloud the issues and concerns with regards to the security are limited rather can be controlled by the internal systems. But when the applications or the IT environment is dynamically available over the internet, by the use of a third party provider it is a different ball game altogether. Organizations are always apprehensive about this move to a public cloud because it opens up a new array of security and privacy risks, which the applications were never accustomed to previously. This research paper tries to analyze the most vulnerable attribute of an organization's security concern which may derail the immense benefits which organizations gain by using a public cloud. The results reveal that data security is the highly potential component, which is prone to risk in the public cloud environment.