A Survey on the Security of Cloud Computing

Abstract

Within the recent decade, major innovations in technology have emerged, that potentially add more convenience to daily life practices not only on an enterprise level but on an individual level as well. Cloud Computing technology has witnessed significant advances in its implementation and become widely adopted by either private or public sectors. It was obvious recently that a lot of organizations and enterprises are transferring their workloads to the cloud. However, security is a major concern for the cloud computing services which is based on Internet connection that makes it vulnerable to multiple types of attacks. Even though that the security measures implemented over cloud computing are developing every passing year, Security still a challenge. In this paper, we conducted a survey study on cloud computing and addressed different types of attacks and possible threats to this emerging technology, as well as protection methods and existing solutions to such attacks.