Cloud is nothing but internet where you can access all things through internet remotely. Cloud computing means managing, access and shoring data or programs over the internet. Cloud Computing has paved the way to increase the capacity or add abilities to the cloud users. Cloud computing has been grown rapidly in the sector of IT. However, there is no doubt that the convenience and low cost of clod services have changed our lives, but security issues associated is considered as one of the foremost problem which has reduced growth of cloud computing and data privacy.
Security issues associated to cloud makes us vulnerable to cyber crimes. Hackers intrude into the exact location of data stored and steals provate and sensitive information for their benefits or for criminals activities. Therefore, a good understanding of cloud security threats and vulnerabilities is necessary in order to provide secure services to the cloud users.
Some of the threats associated to cloud computing we can disuss. First of all what is a threat. Threat is something related to risk of happening or an evil indication which facilitates your vulnerabilities or weaknesses. Top security threats associated to cloud computing can be: Abuse or nefarious use, insecure interfaces and API's, malicious insiders or shared technology like Iaas vendor or cpu caches. We can overcome these threats by following some of the remedies like stricter initial registration, validation process, monitoring public network, strong authentication..for example Google authenticator, security related notifications, monitoring of unauthorised changes or activity and vulnerability scanning.
We have also some of the vulnerabilities. Vulnerability basically means one's weakness. When an hacker or person other than you understands your weaknesses it allows the attacker to reduce systems information assurance. Cloud computing can be accessed through internet and the data is stored is valuable. Cloud vulnerabilities like session riding, session hijacking, injection vulnerabilities like sql injection and cross side scripting, resource exhaustion like denial of service attacks and internet protocol vulnerability.
As we can see these are threats and vulnerabilities which are prone to cloud. It is necessary that one must develop and dedign security techniques to protect the data dtored in your cloud. Here we discussed, the threats and vulnerabilities which will make understand an individual how to tackle.
