A TAXONOMY OF SECURITY AND RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN CLOUD COMPUTING

Abstract

Cloud computing is delivered as a storage service by third party. It gains wide acceptance from various Business organizations & Information Technology (IT) Industries. Cloud computing provides various services to users through the internet; those services are like Applications, computation, and storage etc. In spite of these advantages, cloud technology faces different types of privacy and security related issues. These issues become major barriers to adopt cloud technology into various organizations. This survey paper addresses the cloud architecture, various security and privacy issues, challenges and threats, attacks, and future research directions to overcome the security and privacy related problems in the cloud environment.