An Analysis of Cloud Computing Security Issues and Solutions Report

This report delves into the security challenges associated with cloud computing, drawing insights from a survey conducted across various organizations. It examines the methodologies, findings, and security issues identified in the surveyed article, offering potential security solutions and a 3-tier architecture to enhance cloud security. The report highlights the increasing reliance on cloud computing for its flexibility and cost-effectiveness, while also addressing the inherent security threats related to embedded systems, storage, applications, and virtualization. Key concerns such as virtual machine isolation, application vulnerabilities, and trust issues are discussed, along with solutions like risk analysis, disaster recovery management, and secure virtualization techniques. The discussion emphasizes the need for organizations to adapt their software development approaches and consider security at every level of cloud service, ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of data, whether in private or public cloud environments. Desklib provides a platform to access this report and numerous other study resources to aid in academic success.

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Executive Summary
The project reports provide the details of cloud computing along with its security
challenges. A survey has been conducted in various organisation to understand the security
challenges of cloud computing and an article has been made based on those survey. The article
has been chosen here to study cloud computing. The article provides the methods, findings,
issues of security while using cloud computing, results and discussion based on the article. There
are some security solutions that have been provided in order to face security challenges while
using cloud computing. The architecture of 3-tier has been provided to help to understand the
security solution while using cloud computing.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
Description of the article.................................................................................................................4
Relevance with the given topic........................................................................................................6
Research study addressed security threats.......................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References......................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
Security is the major issue in today’s world of information technology. As the use of
information technology is increasing day by day, challenges regarding cyber security are also
increasing. It is important to know about the security solutions while using cloud computing.
Cloud computing is core technical part in this era due to its emergence on IT, software
engineering, businesses and data storage. Traditional way of computing data was not appropriate
to access them anytime and anywhere that is why cloud computing has come into existence. The
topic of security issues and cloud computing in a cloud has been selected here in order to study
security solution. An article has been chosen here to study in details about the security issues and
cloud computing. This project provides the analysis of methods as well as findings, highlights
the problems of security, the results of security issues and finally, the discussion, as well as
results, will be judged.
Description of the article
The article basically provides the details on security of cloud computing along with its
issues, threats as well as solutions. Cloud computing has a remarkable potential that helps in
providing the consumers' services on demand having greater flexibility and cost-effectiveness
over internet. For on-demand services, security is the major issue. This article provides the
overview of securities issues that affect cloud computing. It also provides details of embedded
system, storage system, application and issues related to clustering, public as well as private
cloud and issues related to them. This article also provides the detailed requirement for managing

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the security in better way along with security architecture of 3-tier. Some issues along with
discussion of new concepts of security and some recommendations are also provided in this
article. Virtualization technique has been provided by the implementation of cloud computing
that helps to provide resources to end user inefficient way. Some important features of cloud
computing are its expedient, elasticity, on-demand services as well as economical. Three
delivery levels of service are infrastructure, platform as well as service as a platform. Server
stack of cloud has been used in cloud computing in which the server is on the back and the user
is in the front. NIST is mainly responsible for the development of guidance as well as security in
the environment of cloud. There are challenges of security while using cloud computing in the
organisation but it has many advantages as well that is why it has been preferred by many
organisations to use cloud computing to increase the efficiency as well as to reduce risks as well.
The methodology that has been used here is attribute-driven [12]. A comprehensive survey has
been done with various organisation has been done in cloud computing that provides the details
of security issues in different organisations.
Figure 1: Survey Data
(Source: 12)
The article helps in finding different types of delivery models of cloud services such as
infrastructure, platform, and software as a service model. There are also five deployed models of

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cloud such as private cloud, community cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud and virtual private
cloud. The basic components of cloud computing are virtualization, multi-tenancy, cloud storage,
the hypervisor and cloud network. The major concerns of security in cloud computing are
software security, storage security, infrastructure security and network security.
The major issues or problems that have been found in the survey are embedded security
issues that include isolation of virtual machine, monitoring of VM, programmability, control
system for electronic access, SNMP server. Application issues include user front end, user
backend, framework, license, service and parallel application. Web application includes web
technology and server, protocol and standard, proxy server. Conviction and Trust issues that
include human factor, forensic value, reputation, governance, trusted third party, lack of trust of
consumer. Other issues are related to client management, data storage of cloud, metadata,
clustering computing, operating issues and many others issues. It also describes the cloud
computing security threats.
As a result, it provides many solutions as requirement of personal security, risk analysis
and effective governance, disaster and backup recovery management, fault tolerance and
exception handling, cryptographic algorithm, digital forensic technique and tools, secure
virtualizations and many others ways of security solution.
In the discussion of security suggestion, security architecture of 3 tier has been discussed
that has three levels application level, infrastructure level and middle level of cloud service.
Organisation that is mostly using cloud computing for running applications of in-house that
needs to modify potentially approach of software development. The organisations are moving to
use application of in-house cloud in order to save their money. It also increases the efficiency as

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well as the security level. In case of public cloud, data is moved from the organisation or to the
organisation are confidential as well as integral.
Relevance with the given topic
Cloud computing technology helps in providing on-demand services to the customers
based on their needs and requirements. This cloud computing system allows better flexibility to
their customers in a cost-effective way [1]. The concerned article discusses the various security
issues that impact cloud computing systems.
Research study addressed security challenges
Security within embedded systems imposes major threats to the computing systems.
Apart from discussing the various security issues, this paper also details about the various
mitigation ways that would help the security officers to deal with their faults. Virtualization
imposes a major threat to this cloud computing system [2]. Isolation of virtual machine could also
result in data leakage as well as attack of the cross-VMs. In addition to this, application issues
related to this cloud computing has also be detailed in this current chapter. User front end issues
along with framework challenges also create challenges in this cloud computing system [9].
Furthermore, it is essential to license this cloud computing system and this also creates another
major issue to the security officers [3]. Human factors along with governance also challenge this
cloud computing system in an adverse manner. In addition to this, client management issues and
cloud storage issues have also been addressed in this article [4]. Furthermore, operating issues like
android cloud computing system also have major issues and this has also been explained in this
section. Therefore, this study successfully addresses the issues of cloud computing system.

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Research study addressed security threats
This research study enumerates detailed analysis of the potential threats that occur in case
o cloud computing system. Repudiation and denial of services are some of the threats that occur
in case of cloud computing system [5]. In addition to this, XSS attack, as well as wrapping
attacks, is some of the other major threats that have been explained in detail in this selected
article. Roll back attack is another malicious attack that affects data security of owners and this
has also been explained in this specific article [10]. Third party intervene software by accessing IP
address thereby using data and information [6]. Therefore, this study provides a detailed analysis
of the data loss and the reasons behind such form of leakage. This study does not only highlights
the root cause even provide specific interventions [7]. Thus, it can be said that this article provides
relevant information and knowledge regarding cloud security threats and challenges faced by the
officers [8]. These issues need to be solved and mitigated for easy accessibility by the security
officers. Therefore, data provided in this research study allows the researcher to understand the
various security issues and find out effective interventions to solve these security breaches.
Conclusion
The IT industry has been changing with the cloud paradigm that is very beneficial for the
organisations as well as countries. Cloud has many advantages but it is still responsible for some
security issues. That is the reason why using cloud computing brings many challenges of
security. The vendors, as well as customers, are aware of threats of security. It also provides the
security challenges of cloud computing and various solution for the same. This article provides
many vulnerabilities, attacks, security challenges that affect the use of cloud computing. The

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government is also thinking to use cloud-based technology in order to increase performance,
innovation, quality as well as security. Architecture of 3-tier helps to enhance the security of
cloud computing. Three levels of service system of cloud have been discussed along with
security consideration at each level.

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