Security and Privacy Concerns in Cloud Computing: A Detailed Analysis

This report provides an overview of the security and privacy challenges in cloud computing. It highlights concerns like the loss of control over data, potential data breaches by cloud providers, and lack of transparency in data processing. The report also discusses the dependence on cloud computing providers and the risks associated with their financial stability or service availability. Furthermore, the report points out that some widely used cloud services lack formal contracts, which can leave customers without recourse in case of problems. The report emphasizes the need to address these issues to ensure robust risk management, access control, auditing, and compliance with regulations.

Security and privacy issues in cloud computing
Cloud Computing has provided various benefit to different public and organizations. But the
adoption of cloud computing world widely is still far away. Due to emerging technologies that
has been developed in the recent years, the use of could as a platform has been possible. Some of
the benefits of cloud computing include quick market time, reduction in the implementation costs
etc. However there are main issues which exist with the security and privacy aspects of Cloud
Computing namely:
1. Loss of control over data: there are probability of compromising of data by the cloud
computing provider and the data might be stored with outside Cloud Computing provider.
Furthermore, with cloud computing there is a complete lack of transparency of the data
processing.
2. Dependence on the Cloud Computing provider: one of the major concern due to the regarding
dependence on one Cloud Computing provider particularly is the availability. The customer will
be affected with their data in case the cloud computing providers are going bankrupt, thereby
hampering the continuity of the business. Additionally, it is seen that few of the Cloud
Computing services which are used widely like GoogleDocs are not seen to have any contract
between the Cloud Computing provider and the customers. Therefore, in case of any problem,
the customer is not able to refer to anything.
These issues are capable of leading to various legal as well as security concerns that are related
to risk management, infrastructure, access control, auditing and logging, regulatory and
legislative compliance, auditing and logging etc