Security Issues in Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing is a process of delivering a companies or individual’s applications and documents from any place, at any time, on any device. It is also a process in which hosted services are delivered through the internet.
Cloud computing helps in bringing together complex IT documents in a small number of places, which can be managed easily. Although cloud computing has its advantages such as simplicity and cost, there are certain security concerns which have been brought about by users, as it involves storing important, and critical data in a shared and public environment. The issues on security concerns can be explained as follows:
Data storage Location
When a company or individual uses cloud they would not know where their data is being held, including the personal, sensitive and critical documents. The data are obviously residing in a specific county and is unknown to the cloud user. Different countries have various privacy policies and laws according to their jurisdiction. A concern is that, if the cloud provider would commit themselves to obeying the privacy requirements of the holding country on behalf of the cloud users, who are their valuable customers.
User Access
According to the EU Law personal information can only be obtained due to a valid reason by a service provider. If an organization or hosting service such as cloud obtains and maintains a company’s confidential and critical data they have to protect it from being misused, and provide protection for its users as mentioned by the EU Law. Therefore A firm using cloud to store its confidential data must know who has access over its documents instead of being concerned and doubtful wondering if they should trust the service provider when storing their critical data, because a firm’s data processed outside of the firm brings about an inherent level of risk. Most Hackers are people who have access to the data and are entrusted with it. In this case it would include the administrators or
Cloud computing helps in bringing together complex IT documents in a small number of places, which can be managed easily. Although cloud computing has its advantages such as simplicity and cost, there are certain security concerns which have been brought about by users, as it involves storing important, and critical data in a shared and public environment. The issues on security concerns can be explained as follows:
Data storage Location
When a company or individual uses cloud they would not know where their data is being held, including the personal, sensitive and critical documents. The data are obviously residing in a specific county and is unknown to the cloud user. Different countries have various privacy policies and laws according to their jurisdiction. A concern is that, if the cloud provider would commit themselves to obeying the privacy requirements of the holding country on behalf of the cloud users, who are their valuable customers.
User Access
According to the EU Law personal information can only be obtained due to a valid reason by a service provider. If an organization or hosting service such as cloud obtains and maintains a company’s confidential and critical data they have to protect it from being misused, and provide protection for its users as mentioned by the EU Law. Therefore A firm using cloud to store its confidential data must know who has access over its documents instead of being concerned and doubtful wondering if they should trust the service provider when storing their critical data, because a firm’s data processed outside of the firm brings about an inherent level of risk. Most Hackers are people who have access to the data and are entrusted with it. In this case it would include the administrators or