The Notorious Nine: Top Cloud Computing Security Challenges in 2017
Abdul Majid Farooqi, Md Tabrez Nafis, Kafiyah Usvub · International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science · 2017
Unlimited storage, virtual hardware, a vast amount of computing power, low cost, location-independent data access. These are some unique features that are provided by the cloud computing, despite all these great benefits cloud computing facing criticism from the experts regarding its security, many organizations want to move their sensitive and confidential data to the cloud, but still in 2017 they are confused, they are expending lots of money to buy expensive hardware and software for their organization, rather than they buy a cloud storage or cloud computing power at very cheap price. So, what’s the reason behind it? Why are they feeling fear to involve in cloud technologies? In this paper, we will try to find out the answers to these questions and will discuss some top cloud security challenges that are currently cloud industry is facing.