Analysis Of Cloud Computing Security Threats and Countermeasures

The demand for Cloud Computing (CC) is increasing at a higher growth rate because of the emerging technologies like machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, IoT, mobile supercomputing, serverless computing, and the industrial need for reducing operational costs. Cloud computing features such as customized offerings, pay-as-you-go or pay-per-use model, availability, seamless scalability, and flexibility have accelerated the demand for cloud services. Despite these many benefits, security is the top challenge in the adoption of cloud services. However, the recent research studies lack the gap between analyzing potential security threats and an exhaustive list of countermeasures proposed for mitigating the threats. The main objective of this paper is to provide a comprehensive view of cloud security threats and to identify potential (more vulnerable) threats. Further, the taxonomy of proposed solutions is provided for data security and privacy on the basis of analysis of research papers in the last decade.