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Angadi , Akshata B. Angadi and Karuna C. Related Papers. These security policies must be adhered by the cloud to avoid intrusion of data by unauthorized users [9]. Figure 2. In the case of SMB companies, a segment that has the Cloud computing consists of applications, platforms and highest cloud application adoption rate, Active Directory AD infrastructure segments. Each segment performs different seems to be the most popular tool for managing users.
With operations and offers different products for businesses and cloud application, the software is hosted outside of the individuals around the world. The business application corporate firewall. In encompasses many technologies including networks, essence, having multiple cloud application products will databases, operating systems, virtualization, resource increase IT management overhead.
For example, cloud scheduling, transaction management, load balancing, application providers can provide delegate the authentication concurrency control and memory management. Data security involves encrypting the Thus, multi-authentication for each employee might be very data as well as ensuring that appropriate policies are enforced often to be confronted in an enterprise.
Those accounts that for data sharing. The given below are the various security come along with each individuals might be the same or concerns in a cloud computing environment. Current issue. Nevertheless, the application of SSO for identification VMMs Virtual Machine Monitor do not offer perfect and authentication does have serious information security risk. Data Transmission: Encryption techniques are used for data in Network Security: Networks are classified into many types like transmission.
To provide the protection for data only goes shared and non-shared, public or private, small area or large where the customer wants it to go by using authentication and area networks and each of them have a number of security integrity and is not modified in transmission.
Problems associated with the network level protocols are used here. In Cloud environment most of the data security comprise of DNS attacks, Sniffer attacks, issue of is not encrypted in the processing time.
But to process data, for reused IP address, etc which are explained in details as follows. In a fully homomorphism encryption scheme advance in cryptography, A Domain Name Server DNS server performs the translation which allows data to be processed without being decrypted.
To of a domain name to an IP address. Since the domain names are provide the confidentiality and integrity of data-in-transmission much easier to remember. Hence, the DNS servers are needed. Here, there is the DNS threats but still there are cases when these security possibility that they can interrupt and change communications. It may happen that even after all the DNS security components of a cloud. Virtual machines are dynamic i.
Ensuring that different instances running on the same physical machine are isolated from each other is a Sniffer attacks are launched by applications that can capture major task of virtualization. They can also be readily cloned packets flowing in a network and if the data that is being and seamlessly moved between physical servers. This dynamic transferred through these packets is not encrypted, it can be nature and potential for VM sprawl makes it difficult to achieve read and there are chances that vital information flowing across and maintain consistent security.
Vulnerabilities or the network can be traced or captured. A sniffer program, configuration errors may be unknowingly propagated. Full recorded. It can be achieved by placing the NIC in promiscuous Virtualization and Para Virtualization are two kinds of mode and in promiscuous mode it can track all data, flowing on virtualization in a cloud computing paradigm.
In full the same network. A malicious sniffing detection platform virtualization, entire hardware architecture is replicated based on ARP address resolution protocol and RTT round virtually.
However, in para-virtualization, an operating system trip time can be used to detect a sniffing system running on a is modified so that it can be run concurrently with other network [11].
VMM Virtual Machine Monitor , is a software layer that abstracts the physical resources used by the Reused IP address issue have been a big network security multiple virtual machines. The VMM provides a virtual concern. Many bugs have been user. This sometimes risks the security of the new user as there found in all popular VMMs that allow escaping from Virtual is a certain time lag between the change of an IP address in machine.
And Virtual Server could allow a guest operating system user to run hence, we can say that sometimes though the old IP address is code on the host or another guest operating system. Vulnerability in privacy of the original user [12]. To achieve the service of cloud computing, the control over the physical access mechanisms to that data. Most most common utilized communication protocol is Hypertext well-known cloud service providers have datacenters around Transfer Protocol HTTP.
In order to assure the information the globe. In many a cases, this can be an issue. In a traditional on-premise application deployment For example, in many EU and South America countries, certain model, the sensitive data of each enterprise continues to reside types of data cannot leave the country because of potentially within the enterprise boundary and is subject to its physical, sensitive information. In addition to the issue of local laws, logical and personnel security and access control policies.
Next in the complexity outside the enterprise boundary, at the Service provider end. In a distributed system, there are Consequently, the service provider must adopt additional multiple databases and multiple applications [15]. This involves the use of strong transactions across multiple data sources need to be handled encryption techniques for data security and fine-grained correctly in a fail safe manner.
This can be done using a central authorization to control access to data. Cloud service providers global transaction manger. Each application in the distributed such as Amazon, the Elastic Compute Cloud EC2 system should be able to participate in the global transaction administrators do not have access to customer instances and via a resource manager. EC2 Administrators with a business need are required to use their individual Data Availability: Data Availability is one of the prime cryptographically strong Secure Shell SSH keys to gain concerns of mission and safety critical organizations.
When access to a host. All such accesses are logged and routinely keeping data at remote systems owned by others, data owners audited. While the data at rest in Simple Storage Service S3 is may suffer from system failures of the service provider.
If the not encrypted by default, users can encrypt their data before it Cloud goes out of operation, data will become unavailable as is uploaded to Amazon S3, so that it is not accessed or the data depends on a single service provider.
The Cloud tampered with by any unauthorized party [13]. This involves making architectural Data Privacy: The data privacy is also one of the key concerns changes at the application and infrastructural levels to add for Cloud computing. A privacy steering committee should also scalability and high availability. A multi-tier architecture needs be created to help make decisions related to data privacy. Data in the cloud is usually globally distributed attacks, needs to be built from the ground up within the which raises concerns about jurisdiction, data exposure and application.
At the same time, an appropriate action plan for privacy. Organizations stand a risk of not complying with business continuity BC and disaster recovery DR needs to government policies as would be explained further while the be considered for any unplanned emergencies. Virtual co-tenancy of sensitive and non-sensitive data Data Segregation: Data in the cloud is typically in a shared on the same host also carries its own potential risks [14]. Encryption cannot be assumed as the single solution for data Data Integrity: Data corruption can happen at any level of segregation problems.
In some situations, customers may not storage and with any type of media, So Integrity monitoring is want to encrypt data because there may be a case when essential in cloud storage which is critical for any data center. Make sure that Data integrity is easily achieved in a standalone system with a encryption is available at all stages, and that these encryption single database.
Data integrity in such a system is maintained schemes were designed and tested by experienced professionals via database constraints and transactions. Transactions should [16]. Data are subjected to external audits and security certifications. If a generated by cloud computing services are kept in the clouds. Enterprises their data and rely on cloud operators to enforce access control. Enterprises need to prove compliance with security applications and development platforms to take advantage of standards, regardless of the location of the systems required to the benefits of cloud computing.
The research on cloud be in scope of regulation, be that on-premise physical servers, computing is still at an early stage. Many existing issues have on-premise virtual machines or off-premise virtual machines not been fully addressed, while new challenges keep emerging running on cloud computing resources. An organization from industry applications.
Some of the challenging research implements the Audit and compliance to the internal and issues in cloud computing are given below. In cloud application to be replicated on multiple servers if need arises; computing, data co-location has some significant restrictions.
In dependent on a priority scheme, the cloud may minimize or public and financial services areas involving users and data shut down a lower level application. A big challenge for the with different risks. Most govern how that data is encrypted, who has access and vendors create SLAs to make a defensive shield against legal archived, and how technologies are used to prevent data loss. So, At the cloud provider, the best practice for securing data at rest there are some important issues, e.
Self-encrypting provides customers before signing a contract with a provider [32]. Some of the basic questions related to SLA are uptime i. And also how may create confusion for patch management efforts. Once an does that difference impact your ability to conduct the enterprises subscribes to a cloud computing resource—for business?
Is there any SLA associated with backup, archive, or example by creating a Web server from templates offered by preservation of data. If the service account becomes inactive the cloud computing service provider—the patch management then do they keep user data?
If yes then how long? Keeping in mind that according to the previously mentioned Verizon Cloud Data Management: Cloud data Can be very large e. Since service providers typically do not have access resources with the most recent vendor supplied patches. If to the physical security system of data centers, they must rely patching is impossible or unmanageable, compensating controls on the infrastructure provider to achieve full data security.
The infrastructure provider, in this context, must achieve the objectives like confidentiality, auditability. Confidentiality is usually achieved using cryptographic protocols, whereas Interoperability: This is the ability of two or more systems auditability can be achieved using remote attestation work together in order to exchange information and use that techniques.
However, in a virtualized environment like the exchanged information. Many public cloud networks are clouds, VMs can dynamically migrate from one location to configured as closed systems and are not designed to interact another; hence directly using remote attestation is not with each other. The lack of integration between these networks sufficient. In this case, it is critical to build trust mechanisms at makes it difficult for organizations to combine their IT systems every architectural layer of the cloud.
Software frameworks in the cloud and realize productivity gains and cost savings. To such as MapReduce and its various implementations such as overcome this challenge, industry standards must be developed Hadoop are designed for distributed processing of data- to help cloud service providers design interoperable platforms intensive tasks, these frameworks typically operate on Internet- and enable data portability. These file systems provision services, manage VM instances, and work with both are different from traditional distributed file systems in their cloud-based and enterprise-based applications using a single storage structure, access pattern and application programming tool set that can function across existing programs and multiple interface.
In particular, they do not implement the standard cloud providers. In this case, there is a need to have cloud POSIX interface, and therefore introduce compatibility issues interoperability. Efforts are under way to solve this problem. Several research For example, the Open Grid Forum, an industry group, is efforts have studied this problem [18].
Until Data Encryption: Encryption is a key technology for data now it has remained a challenging task in cloud computing. Understand data in motion and data at rest encryption. Remember, security can range from simple easy to manage, Access Controls: Authentication and identity management is low cost and quite frankly, not very secure all the way to more important than ever.
And, it is not really all that different. You and the provider of your frequency does the service provider invoke? What is the Cloud computing solution have many decisions and options to recovery methodology for password and account name?
How consider. For example, do the Web services APIs that you use are passwords delivered to users upon a change? What about to access the cloud, either programmatically, or with clients logs and the ability to audit access?
This is not all that different written to those APIs, provide SSL encryption for access, this is from how you secure your internal systems and data, and it generally considered to be a standard. Once the object arrives at works the same way, if you use strong passwords, changed the cloud, it is decrypted, and stored. Is there an option to frequently, with typical IT security processes, you will protect encrypt it prior to storing?
Do you want to worry about that element of access. These are options, understand your cloud computing of a cloud data center without sacrificing SLA are an excellent solution and make your decisions based on desired levels of economic incentive for data center operators and would also security. The goal is not only to cut down virtualization or many machines may run one program. Designing energy- computing by enabling virtual machine migration to balance efficient data centers has recently received considerable load across the data center.
In addition, virtual machine attention. This problem can be approached from several migration enables robust and highly responsive provisioning in directions. For example, energy efficient hardware architecture data centers. Virtual machine migration has evolved from that enables slowing down CPU speeds and turning off partial process migration techniques.
More recently, Xen and hardware components has become commonplace. The major benefits of VM migration machines. Recent research has also begun to study energy- is to avoid hotspots; however, this is not straightforward.
A key challenge Currently, detecting workload hotspots and initiating a in all the above methods is to achieve a good trade-off between migration lacks the agility to respond to sudden workload energy savings and application performance. In this respect, changes. Moreover, the in memory state should be transferred few researchers have recently started to investigate coordinated consistently and efficiently, with integrated consideration of solutions for performance and power management in a dynamic resources for applications and physical servers [19].
These patterns can be further network conditions such as during slow network connections. The center is uniquely demand software. One of the examples is Apple's MobileMe positioned to service the clients across the globe by deploying a cloud service, which stores and synchronizes data across Remote Control Unit that has the capabilities to communicate multiple devices. It began with an embarrassing start when to a cloud-based architecture [20].
To avoid such problems, providers are turning to Multi-tenancy: There are multiple types of cloud applications technologies such as Google Gears, Adobe AIR, and Curl, that users can access through the Internet, from small Internet- which allow cloud based applications to run locally, some even based widgets to large enterprise software applications that allow them to run in the absence of a network connection.
These processing capabilities of the desktop, forming a bridge application requests require multi-tenancy for many reasons, between the cloud and the user's own computer. Considering the most important is cost. Multiple customers accessing the the use of software such as 3D gaming applications and video same hardware, application servers, and databases may affect conferencing systems, reliability is still a challenge to achieve response times and performance for other customers.
For for an IT solution that is based on cloud computing [22]. For example, multiple service requests Cloud Computing would cover three main areas which are accessing resources at the same time increase wait times but not technology, personnel and operations. Technical standards are necessarily CPU time, or the number of connections to an likely to be driven by organizations, such as, Jericho Forum1 HTTP server has been exhausted, and the service must wait before being ratified by established bodies, e.
On the personnel side, scenario—drops the service request [21].
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