Security Threats and Preventive Measures in Cloud Computing

This report delves into the critical security threats within cloud computing environments, addressing issues such as data alteration, breaches, and DDoS attacks. It highlights the importance of understanding these threats and implementing preventive measures to safeguard sensitive data. The paper emphasizes the significance of penetration testing and the role of cloud providers in establishing robust IT security policies. It also discusses the challenges in mitigating these threats, considering the diverse nature of business environments. By examining the key challenges and providing insights into effective security strategies, this report aims to equip readers with the knowledge necessary to secure cloud-based computing environments. The report also emphasizes the importance of account security and offers valuable information on how to protect a computing environment.

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Topic: Security threats in cloud computing and preventive methods
The foremost determination of the paper is to highlight the security threats faced by most
business enterprises as most of the business data and other essential data are now stored in the
cloud servers in order to protect the data from security threats coming from both inside or outside
business organizations. The application of cloud computing also has numerous security issues
associated with them such as data alteration, data breaches, insecure APIs and DDoS. The
security issues associated with cloud computing are human error, and other meltdown in terms of
the complexities (Ali, Khan & Vasilakos, 2015). The importance of the penetrations tests in
order to protect the security in cloud computing will be also presented in a professional manner
in the paper as well. The paper will be successfully identifying the preventive measures
regarding the security measures for cloud computing such as account hijacking. The paper will
be very much useful for the readers to understand the reasons which can be implemented in
business organizations in order to secure a computing environment (Kazim & Zhu, 2015). The
key challenges faced regarding mitigation of the security threats will be also discussed in the
paper. The paper will successfully highlight the importance of the cloud providers as they are
responsible while framing the IT security policies for the data which are being stored in the cloud
computing environment. The challenges regarding framing of the preventive steps as each
business environments are different from each other these aspects has to be considered while
addressing the security threats in cloud computing.

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Reference
Ali, M., Khan, S. U., & Vasilakos, A. V. (2015). Security in cloud computing: Opportunities and
challenges. Information sciences, 305, 357-383.
Kazim, M., & Zhu, S. Y. (2015). A survey on top security threats in cloud computing.