Handling of Cloud Computing Audit Logs using Data Mining Techniques

Cloud computing has now extended as a new paradigm for delivering services over the Internet. It is attractive to business owners, since it reduces the upfront investments. However, despite the fact that cloud computing offers potential opportunities to the IT industry, it has many issues and challenges still to be addressed. Eventually the business owners could not seek the physical location of their application or data, which reduces the confidentiality on cloud computing. Audit logs are used as one of the possible ways to secure the data and it allows forensic analysis when any security incidents that occurs. This paper present the data mining techniques used in audit logs.