Cloud Computing and its Security Concerns- A Survey

Abstract

Cloud Computing is evolving into the most desirous computing  technology  especially  because  of  its  low  cost  & resource independence but also incurs some of the most threatening concerns to the future of this technology i.e. its security. This paper presents a brief introduction to Cloud Computing with a comprehensive review of the most discussed security concerns to Cloud Systems.

Keywords— Grid Computing, Distributed Computing, Parallel Computing,  Virtualization,  Utility  Computing,  Image optimization, Image portability, Fault tolerance, Multitenancy, Virtual  Appliance,  OS Kernel,  Cloud migration,  DDoS,  Virus, Data location, Data Recovery, Data Control, Data privacy, Data Availability, Data Transmission, Data Security, Data Reminisce, Data Disposal,  Virtual Servers, Virtual Networks, Hypervisors, APIs, VM Portability, Uptime.