Information Technology And Cloud Storage

We would like to provide the benefits of cloud computing without any troubles to propel in the direction it is designed for. This is to be achieved by preventing the owner's data from all risks associated and providing a cloud model that is more secure and efficient. The proposed model shall overcome the security risks defined by the security functions over cloud computing, as follows in (Passent M. et al., 2015):

The economic case for cloud computing is compelling and at the same time there are striking challenges in its security. The concepts of cloud computing security issues are fundamentally new and intractable. What appears new is only relative to traditional computing that has been practiced since several years. Many such security problems have been giving attention since the time-sharing era. Cloud computing providers have and can build datacenters as large due to their expertise in organizing and provisioning computational resources at as low cost as possible.

However, with the convenience of cloud storage come real risks. Cloud storage is quite attractive, given the advantages previously stated, but there are still great concerns, including reliability and security. Organizations relying on cloud computing must ensure that the third party they’ve entrusted to store their data can guarantee that they can access their information at any time and that their information is safe from the threat of hackers (Berman, 2008, p. ).

The idea of cloud computing was first initially introduced by J.C.R Licklider in 1969 who introduced the idea as “Intergalactic Computer Network” [1]. He envisioned a future where everyone on the planet was connected/interconnected together accessing information, data, programs and so on from anywhere in the world. A comments was made by Margaret Lewis who is the product marketing director at AMD who said in 2010 that J.C.R Licklider idea in 1969 “the idea sounds a lot like what we are calling cloud computing” [1, 2]. Some believe the idea was first discussed by John McCarthy who discussed it in a public venue at a speech that was celebrating MIT centennial who said “that computer time-sharing technology might result in a future in which computing power and even specific applications could be sold through the utility business model (like water or electricity)”[3].

There are clear indications that private data center use may have peaked. Cloud storage faces the same risks as the enterprise network, adding a virtual location that is also vulnerable to hacked APIs, account hijacking, poor key/certificate management and lax authentication. With the cloud/hybrid model as the growing standard, it is critical for companies to secure data and applications in both the physical and virtual locations.

Cloud computing belongs to a group called SaaS (Software as a Service) computing. SaaS deliver one application within cloud computing to thousands of customers across the world. Cloud computing is also a utility computing IT resource that allows user to access the cloud on demand. Cloud computing also delivers cloud web services. Who invented Cloud computing? John McCarthy in the 1960s stated that “computation may someday be organized as a public utility” (Anon., 2010). This was the era when the idea of cloud computing came about. In 1966 Douglass Parkhill looked into all modern day characteristics of cloud computing within his book ‘The Challenge of computer utility’ (Parkhill, 1966). Around as early as the 1950s “an early implementation of cloud computing was patented and put to use (in England and Germany) by Hardy Schloer. He termed the system a ‘one page web’” (Anon., 2010). Since then Cloud computing has grown on a fast scale. Cloud computing is now used by millions of people across the world.

Abstract: In cloud computing and services with the rapid developments, there has been a growing trend to use the cloud for large-scale data storage. This has raised the important security issue of how to control and prevent unauthorized access to data stored in the cloud. Access control is one of the most important security mechanisms in cloud computing. By using the Role Based Access Control and Attribute Based Access Control, security to the data stored in cloud is enhanced through the fine grained access control policies. Attribute Based and Role Based Encryption techniques are used as the main encryption primitive. Signature Based authentication is used to improve security. Fine grained access control is provided with authentication

Usage of remote servers via internet to store, manage and process data instead of using a personal computer is known as Cloud computing. It’s a set of Information Technology services with the ability to scale up or down their service requirements. Most of the cloud services are provided by a third party service provider. In cloud computing, organizations can utilize IT services without in advance investment. Despite its benefits obtained from the cloud computing, the organizations are slow in accepting it due to security issues and challenges. Security is one of the major problems which hinder the growth of cloud. It’s not wise to handing over the important data to another company; such that clients need to be vigilant in understanding the risks of data infringement in this new environment. This paper discusses a detailed analysis of the cloud computing security issues and challenges. (Ayoleke)

Cloud computing depicts the utilization of a gathering of services, applications, data, and framework. While distributed computing is extending quickly and utilized by numerous people and associations globally, clients ' information is generally handled remotely in obscure machines that clients don 't possess or work. Consequently, clients ' apprehension of classified information spillage and loss of security in the cloud turns into a noteworthy boundary to the wide appropriation of cloud administrations. Data Loss/Leakage Prevention has been discovered to be one of the compelling methods for averting Data Loss. In this paper, we will examine about cloud computing data security issues, counting tile security of information transmission, storage, security and administration of security. Concentrate on all inclusive data administration influence cloud security examination, and called attention to that an achievement in the advancement of this cloud computing, attempt to list the comparing

The sudden emergence of cloud storage has taken over organizations by storm. A recent study that was conducted, concluded that, the number of organizations using cloud storage has almost doubled in the last few years alone. And in addition, the public cloud service market will exceed $244 billion by 2017 (Baiju, 2014). Using the cloud can provide many competitive advantages for a business. This includes; usability, bandwidth, disaster recovery, and cost savings.

While reading this paper, the authors are discussing the security worries with in cloud computing and its challenges. In the information technology area, cloud computing has become one of the fastest-growing parts of the industry. As a result of the vast movement of cloud computing some concerns of security issues have appeared. The issues come from the idea that data is stored remotely from the user’s location. The beauty of cloud computing is that data can be stored in any location. Users concern about their privacy and security risk has lowered overall, however regarding cloud computing users do not feel comfortable because data is stored in a cloud (the network of computers used for remote storage and maintenance) and not

The article “Cloud Computing: State of the Art and Security Issues” is written by Shruti Chhabra and V.S. Dixit, published by ACM SIGSOFT on 3rd April 2015. The article appears to be a collection of basics terminologies for Cloud Computing along with some categories comparisons between various Cloud services available in the market. In an attempt to discuss various security issues related to Cloud Computing, the authors have divided the article into nine areas as summarized below.

This paper proposes, various methods for anonymous authentication for data stored in cloud. Cloud verifies the authenticity of the series without knowing the user’s identity before storing data. This paper also has the added feature of access control in which only valid users are able to decrypt the stored information. These schemes also prevents replay attacks and supports creation, modification, and reading data stored in the cloud. Moreover, our authentication and access control scheme is decentralized and robust, unlike other access control schemes designed for clouds which are centralized. The communication, computation, and storage overheads are comparable to centralized approaches .The aim of this paper is to cover many security issues arises in cloud computing and different schemes to prevent security risks in cloud.

To study a system which will help to secure data stored on the cloud storage system. This system may be helpful to for users who wants secure thier data as well as for companies who wants to give access permission to limited data to their employees and secure their data in cloud storage system.

Abstract-- Cloud storage engages customers to remotely store their data and value the on-interest superb cloud applications without the heaviness of close-by hardware and software organization. Regardless of the way that the favorable circumstances are clear, such a service is moreover surrendering customer’s physical responsibility for outsourced data, which unavoidably acts new security risks toward the precision of the data in cloud. From educational and industrial viewpoints at present, cryptography is considered as a key advancement to deal with security and assurance issues. The cloud computing appears, important potential to give functional, easy to manage, adaptable, and skilled resources on the fly, over the Web. Regardless, the