International Journal of R&D in Engineering, Science and Management

10

Authors: Hawa Singh

Although cloud computing has recently attracted significant momentum and attention in both academia and industry users. This is due to noticing drastic change in everyone’s perception of infrastructure availability, software delivery and development models. Representing the step by step deployment from mainframe computers to cloud computing architecture, following the transition throw personal computer, network, client / server, internet and grid computing models. This rapid change towards the cloud computing, has fuelled on this critical issue for the success of information systems, communication and information security. To words the perspective of security, a number of risks and challenges have been introduced regarding relocation to the cloud computing, deteriorating much of the effectiveness of traditional protection mechanisms. As a result the aim of this paper is firstly to introduce some of the paradigm towards cloud computing, application, advantage and drawbacks of cloud computing and secondly to evaluate cloud security by identifying some of the challenges in the cloud computing. The aim of this paper is to provide a better understanding of cloud computing and identifying security requirements in the cloud computing model.