Hindrances in the Security of Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing model offers numerous advantages to the users such as flexibility, availability and less cost. This model is being adopted by large number of organizations and the list of organizations entering into Cloud Computing is growing on a large scale. The user places their data on Cloud as it provides a lot of storage area. But mounting of user data onto the Cloud demands protection of the data from malicious attacks. The Cloud providers provide various measures to protect the user data but still it is prone to attacks. This paper addresses the various security threats that might occur in Cloud Computing. A survey is being carried out to determine the awareness of these attacks among the various Cloud Computing users.