ABSTRACT

Cloud Computing is the most emerging trend in Information Technology now days. It is attracting the organizations due to its advantages of scalability, throughput, easy and cheap access and on demand up and down grading of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. Besides all the salient features of cloud environment, there are the big challenges of privacy and security. In this paper, a review of different security issues like trust, confidentiality, authenticity, encryption, key management and resource sharing are presented along with the efforts made on how to overcome these issues.

Keywords: - Cloud Computing, Security Issues, trust, confidentiality, authenticity, encryption