Security and Privacy Issues in Cloud Computing Environment: A Survey Paper

Cloud computing is emerging as a powerful architecture to perform large-scale and complex computing. It extends the information technology (IT) capability by providing on demand access to computer resources for dedicated use. The information security and privacy are the major concerns over the cloud from user perspective. This paper surveys and evaluates the architecture, data security and privacy issues in cloud computing like data confidentiality, integrity, authentication, trust, service level agreements and regulatory issues. The objective of this paper is to review comprehensively the current challenges of data security and privacy being faced by cloud computing and critically analyze these issues.