Security Issues in Cloud Computing - A Review

Cloud computing technology drawn the attention of IT world and is the changing the focus of enterprises. A high percentage of internet users today are already utilizing aspects of cloud computing in their normal daily workflow. Cloud computing gained attention due to the growth of internet technologies, reduced costs of storage and processing, growth technologies of visualization, SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and advancement in internet security. Cloud computing security is one of the main challenges in cloud computing. An organization can decide to adopt cloud only on based on benefits to risk ratio. This paper is focused on the security issues of cloud computing. Before analysing the security issues, the definition of cloud computing and brief discussion to under cloud computing is presented. Then discusses the components that affect the security of the cloud then it explores the cloud security issues and problems faced by cloud service provider and some solution for security issues.