Cloud Computing:Security Issues and Challenges

Today is the age of information technology. The facets of work and personal life are moving towards the concept of availability of everything online. The cloud makes it possible to access the information from anywhere at any time. Cloud computing is an internet based computing, where shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and devices on demand. In the last few years, cloud computing has grown from being a promising business concept to one of the fastest growing segments of the IT industry. Generally, cloud services are provided by a third-party supplier who possesses the arrangement. Cloud computing has completely transformed the way business organizations use IT both inside and outside of their organization. Cloud computing has many advantages like cost efficiency, convenience and continuous availability, scalability and performance, flexibility and increased storage capacity. However, Many enterprises are reluctant to move critical cloud applications out of their own data centers and into the public cloud due to security concerns. Security is a top concern for IT management because it is a most important requirement to protect the company information and to ensure system integrity. This paper mainly focuses on the security issues and challenges in cloud computing and enlightened the steps that an enterprise can take to reduce the security issues.