SECURITY ISSUES IN CLOUD COMPUTING AND COUNTERMEASURES
Danish Jamil, Hassan Zaki · 2011
Cloud computing technology is a new concept of providing dramatically scalable and virtualised resources, bandwidth, software and hardware on demand to consumers. Consumers can typically requests cloud services via a web browser or web service. Using cloud computing, consumers can safe cost of hardware deployment, software licenses and system maintenance. On the other hand, it also has a few security issues. This paper introduces four cloud security problems, which are XML Signature Element Wrapping, Browser Security, Cloud Malware Injection Attack and Flooding Attacks, and also gives the possible countermeasures.