Surveying and Analyzing Security Problems in Cloud Computing Environments

Cloud computing technology is a relatively new concept of providing dramatically scalable and virtualized resources, software and hardware on demand to consumers. Cloud Computing offers a whole new paradigm to provide users with high end and scalable infrastructure at an affordable cost. It is based on many new technologies like virtualization and distributed computing. However, security concerns are terrible for these systems whose infrastructure and computational resources are owned by an outside party that sells those services to the general public. In fact, data breaches to cloud services are also increasing every year due to hackers who are always trying to exploit the security vulnerabilities of the cloud architecture. We present in this paper a detailed analysis of the cloud computing security issues and the general security requirements into which the security concerns falls. In addition, countermeasures to cloud security breaches are proposed.