A Literature Review of Challenges and Solutions in Cloud Security

Cloud computing has emerged as a revolutionary paradigm that provides on-demand access to shared computing resources over the internet. However, it also poses significant security and privacy challenges, particularly in terms of data protection and incident management. This literature review explores the challenges and solutions to achieve a secure cloud computing ecosystem, such as natural disasters, system failures, hacking/malicious activities, and human errors, and discusses potential solutions, including network redundancy, intrusion detection, and disaster recovery. It also discusses common best practices, incident management, and disaster recovery models to ensure availability and data reliability. These practices ensure that the cloud ecosystem will be resilient to attacks and disasters from external and internal factors. As cloud technology continues to grow, we are likely to see improvement in cloud security practices and technologies like integration with machine learning and deep learning models, advanced patterns, or blockchain utilization. These improvements will help patch current known vulnerabilities and challenges in hope of a better and more secure cloud solution and ecosystem.