CHAPTER 2
ANALYSIS OF SECURITY ISSUES IN CLOUD ENVIRONMENT

SUSHRUTA MISHRA¹, NITIN TRIPATHY¹, BROJO KISHORE MISHRA², CHANDRAKANTA MAHANTY³

¹School of Computer Engineering, KIIT University, India

²Department of CS&IT, CVRCE, India

³Department of CSE, GIET, India

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Abstract

The rapid growth and outreach of cloud computing technology enables various organizations to outsource their computational tasks or helps to sell their computational entities which are idle. At present, cloud computing appears to be a very promising trend, which has tempted several firms to adopt this technology. However, there are still other aspects that a firm must take care of before entering into the cloud computing zone. Among these aspects, security is the most crucial attribute that must be taken care of smoothly and efficiently. Security in cloud computing acts as a very technically feasible yet...