scholarly journals A Study on the Alternative Strategies and Approaches to Condense the Security Challenges and Threats Faced in the area of Cloud Computing

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Habiba Sohail ◽  
Dhanalakshmi Venugopal
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Access Control ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Alternative Strategies ◽  
Security Challenges

The focal point of this research maneuvers over the challenges and threats that are continuously being faced in cloud computing. Cloud computing is considered as one of the most versatile technology in the recent years. It is an innovative approach towards Information Systems and it has become an integral part of the IT industry. The paper aims to highlight the seriousness of the threats and challenges encountered in cloud computing. In this paper, we give an overview on what makes this technology the future of computing. Immense literature study was conducted to gather adequate data on the recent techniques and terminologies related to the research field. An in-depth research analysis presents a competent mechanism that identifies the challenges and threats in cloud computing. The paper also refers to different security breaches that occurred over the years and what measures were taken to overcome the catastrophic loss. Along with that, it also caters the alternative strategies and approaches available to overcome the possible security threats and challenges. Different alternative methods such as Cryptography and Access Control Mechanisms are identified which are feasible and can be utilized for enhancing the security in cloud computing. Cloud computing is no doubt growing in popularity but even the immensity of this technology cannot disguise the security issues that linger with it. After thoroughly investigating and inspecting all the literary resources, gathered data and information, it is discovered that although cloud computing is tremendously gaining its popularity in the IT field, concerns about its security impact have also been raised considerably. The conclusion of this paper provides different strategies to be adopted to condense the effect of security challenges in the chosen area of the research.     Keywords: Access Control, Cloud Application, Cloud Computing, Challenges,  Cryptography, Data Portability, Information System, Interoperability, PaaS, SaaS, Security, Threats, Virtualization;

Security Challenges in Fog Computing

2019 ◽  
pp. 148-164
Author(s):  
Anshu Devi ◽  
Ramesh Kait ◽  
Virender Ranga
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Fog Computing ◽  
Cloud Security ◽  
Trust Model ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Computing Model ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Security Concerns ◽  
Distinct Features

Fog computing is a term coined by networking giant Cisco. It is a new paradigm that extends the cloud computing model by conferring computation, storage, and application services at the periphery of networks. Fog computing is a gifted paradigm of cloud computing that facilitates the mobility, portability, heterogeneity, and processing of voluminous data. These distinct features of fog help to reduce latency and make it suitable for location-sensitive applications. Fog computing features raise new security concerns and challenges. The existing cloud security has not been implemented directly due to mobility, heterogeneity of fog nodes. As we know, IoT has to process large amount of data quickly; therefore, it has various functionality-driven applications that escalate security concerns. The primary aim of this chapter is to present the most recent security aspects such as authentication and trust, reputation-based trust model, rogue fog node and authentication at different level, security threats, challenges, and also highlights the future aspects of fog.

scholarly journals Security Challenges in Healthcare Cloud Computing: A Systematic Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esmaeil Mehraeen ◽  
Marjan Ghazisaeedi ◽  
Jebraeil Farzi ◽  
Saghar Mirshekari
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Access Control ◽  
Identity Management ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Healthcare Data ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Authentication And Authorization ◽  
Hypervisor Security

<p><strong>BACKGROUND:</strong> Healthcare data are very sensitive records that should not be made available to unauthorized people in order for protecting patient's information security. However, in progressed technologies as cloud computing which are vulnerable to cyber gaps that pose an adverse impact on the security and privacy of patients’ electronic health records and in these situations, security challenges of the wireless networks need to be carefully understood and considered. Recently, security concerns in cloud computing environment are a matter of challenge with rising importance.</p><p><strong>OBJECTIVE:</strong> In this study a systematic review to investigate the security challenges in cloud computing was carried out. We focused mainly on healthcare cloud computing security with an organized review of 210 full text articles published between 2000 and 2015.</p><p><strong>METHOD:</strong> A systematic literature review was conducted including PubMed, Science direct, Embase, ProQuest, Web of science, Cochrane, Emerald, and Scopus databases.</p><p><strong>FINDINGS:</strong> Using the strategies described, 666 references retrieved (for research question one 365, research question two 201, and research question three 100 references).</p><p><strong>IMPROVEMENTS:</strong> Review of articles showed that for ensuring healthcare data security, it is important to provide authentication, authorization and access control within cloud's virtualized network. Issues such as identity management and access control, Internet-based access, authentication and authorization and cybercriminals are major concerns in healthcare cloud computing. To manage these issues<strong> </strong>many involved events such as Hybrid Execution Model, VCC-SSF, sHype Hypervisor Security Architecture, Identity Management, and Resource Isolation approaches<em> </em>have to be defined for using cloud computing threat management processes.</p>

A survey on access control mechanisms for cloud computing

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rayane El Sibai ◽  
Nader Gemayel ◽  
Jacques Bou Abdo ◽  
Jacques Demerjian
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Access Control ◽  
Control Mechanisms

Access Control Framework Using Multi-Factor Authentication in Cloud Computing

2021 ◽  
pp. 1130-1146
Author(s):  
Subhash Chandra Patel ◽  
Sumit Jaiswal ◽  
Ravi Shankar Singh ◽  
Jyoti Chauhan
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Access Control ◽  
Cloud Provider ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Security Authentication ◽  
Data Owner ◽  
Control Framework ◽  
One Time Password ◽  
Remote Client

The most challenging issues in cloud computing are access control and data security because users of the cloud outsource sensitive data and information to cloud provider servers, which are not within the same trusted domain as the data owner. Within cloud computing, various services and resources need protection from unauthorized use as a part of the security. Authentication is a key technology for information security. In recent years, a lot of research has been carried out throughout the world and several schemes have been proposed to improve authentication in the cloud. Remote authentication is the commonly used method to determine the identity of the remote client. In this article, the authors have proposed a systematic method for authenticating clients, namely by using a password, biometrics, and out-of-band-based access control mechanisms that are suitable for access control. The proposed system involves user ID/password, biometrics characteristics, and a mobile phone as a software token for one-time password generation.

scholarly journals Cloud security: risk factors and security issues in current trends

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 424
Author(s):  
Dr. K.SAI MANOJ
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Cloud Security ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Security Risk ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Virtual Resources

Now a days, cloud computing is an emerging and way of computing in computer science. Cloud computing is a set of resources and services that are offered by the network or internet. Cloud computing extends various computing techniques like grid computing, distributed compu-ting. Today cloud computing is used in both industrial, research and academic field. Cloud facilitates its users by providing virtual resources via internet. As the field of cloud computing is spreading the new techniques are developing. This increase in cloud computing environment also increases security challenges for cloud developers. Users of cloud save their data in the cloud hence the lack of security in cloud can lose the user’s trust.In this paper we will discuss some of the cloud security issues in various aspects like multi-tenancy, elasticity, reliability, availability etc in various sectors, the paper also discuss existing security techniques and approaches for a secure cloud environment. This paper will enable researchers and professionals to know about different security threats and models and tools proposed.  

scholarly journals Secured Information Sharing in Mobile Cloud Computing using Access Controls

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 1559-1564
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Access Control ◽  
Key Management ◽  
Mobile Cloud Computing ◽  
Perturbation Methods ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Mobile Cloud ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Mobile Environment ◽  
Access Controls

Presently usage of smart mobiles increasing, due to internet availability most of users outsourcing their data to cloud but it is untrusted, so a security mechanism needed in this work proposing Homomorphic cipher text policy-Attribute based encryption (HCP-ABE), it derived from classic ABE. “Mobile cloud computing are combinations of mobile computing and cloud computing”, mobile applications are designed and hosted in cloud computing without verifying about mobile environment. Security models are constructed using Perturbation methods as per literature. These models are not secure compared to cryptographic techniques. When perturbation methods are used, Data reconstruction becomes a significant challenge. Hence computations are complicated to perform. Furthermore, this method suffers a trade-off between accuracy and privacy and most of the research work focused on key management issues and static access policies but due to user dynamic the access control mechanism should design for proactive strategies. To support dynamic access control and operations HCP-ABE scheme intended. In this paper we identify challenges associated with mobile cloud-based security system and possible provide solutions to understand existing research work conducting compressive review on different access control mechanisms.

Access Control in Cloud Computing

2016 ◽  
pp. 1914-1936
Author(s):  
Qianqian Zhao ◽  
Maode Ma ◽  
Yuqing Zhang ◽  
Bingsheng He
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Access Control ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Secure Access ◽  
Secure Access Control

Data sharing as one of the most popular service applications in cloud computing has received wide attention, which makes the consumers achieve the shared contents whenever and wherever possible. However, the new paradigm of data sharing will also introduce some security issues while it provides much convenience. The data confidentiality, the privacy security, the user key accountability, and the efficiency are hindering its rapid expansion. An effective and secure access control mechanism is becoming one way to deal with this dilemma. In this chapter, the authors focus on presenting a detailed review on the existing access control mechanisms. Then, they explore some potential research issues for the further development of more comprehensive and secure access control schemes. Finally, the authors expect that the topic of access control in cloud computing will attract much more attention from academia and industry.

Cloud Security Threats and Techniques to Strengthen Cloud Computing Adoption Framework

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 50-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nabeel Khan ◽  
Adil Al-Yasiri
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Cloud Security ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
It Infrastructure ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Cloud Computing Adoption ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Mitigation Techniques

Cloud Computing allows firms to outsource their entire information technology (IT) process, allowing them to concentrate more on their core business to enhance their productivity and innovation in offering services to customers. It allows businesses to cut down heavy cost incurred over IT infrastructure without losing focus on customer needs. However, to a certain limit adopting Cloud computing has struggled to grow among many established and growing organizations due to several security and privacy related issues. Throughout the course of this study several interviews were conducted, with cloud developers and security experts, and the literature was reviewed. This study enabled us to understand, current and future, security and privacy challenges with cloud computing by providing suitable solutions to identified challenges. The outcome of this study led to identification of total 18, current and future, security issues affecting several attributes of cloud computing. In this process of identification, the author also found mitigation techniques to avert these security issues. A security guide is formulated which enables organizations to be aware of security challenges, vulnerabilities and techniques to evade them.

scholarly journals Survey on Access Control Mechanisms in Cloud Computing

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
G�zde Karataş ◽  
Akhan Akbulut ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Access Control ◽  
Control Mechanisms
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