Security Challenges Faced by Cloud Services Providers

Running Head: CLOUD-BASED SERVICES
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Cloud Infrastructure
Security Issues

CLOUD-BASED SERVICES
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Security challenges faced by cloud services providers
Security is the very big problem for cloud computing and it is estimated that lack of
security increase various cyber- attacks and threats. CSP is a part of cloud computing
that provides services too many organizations and consumers and in this modern
technology, users use this advanced technology to store personal data or information as
a backup plan (Ali, Khan, and Vasilakos, 2015). According to structure of taxonomies,
there are main two security challenges faced by CSP which are following
 The absence of knowledge, fear of change and skills shortage
 The absence of automation in cloud billing
The absence of knowledge, fear of change and skills shortage
Cloud computing is an advanced technology which is very complex to understand so
that many consumers are not able to adopt this type of services. Due to lack of
knowledge CSP cannot provide this service to all customers and it is a very limited
process by which many business industries struggle from skill shortage (Alizadeh, et al.,
2016). It is identified that large communities require maintaining their run rate without
stopping selling their old products and if they do not have any knowledge of cloud
service then they can reduce their value in the market. Some of them also suffer from
automation problem and they do not understand the fundamental concept of cloud-
based services and how manual procedure reduces their productivity.
The absence of automation in cloud billing
Cloud computing is the very latest innovation which provides the faculty of flexibility to
their consumers and there are multiple methods to purchase cloud services (Alizadeh,
et al., 2016). The price of cloud service is very complex and it uses different billing
process rather than other. It uses the main three pricing models, for example, SaaS,
Paas, and LaaS which are very wide and complex. All these systems require an
automatic invoice process which is the very big problem faced by cloud service
providers. Moreover, the third-party organization provides a solution to this problem
but it is very complicated to select the right one.