An Overview on Data Security in Cloud Computing

TL;DR

This paper provides a comprehensive overview of data security challenges in cloud computing, categorizing issues related to cloud characteristics, data lifecycle, and security attributes, along with common solutions.

Contribution

It systematically classifies data security issues in cloud computing and summarizes existing solutions, offering a structured overview of the field.

Findings

Identifies key data security issues specific to cloud environments.

Classifies issues based on cloud characteristics, data lifecycle, and security attributes.

Summarizes common security solutions used in cloud computing.

Abstract

Cloud Computing refers to the use of computer resources as a service on-demand via internet. It is mainly based on data and applications outsourcing, traditionally stored on users' computers, to remote servers (datacenters) owned, administered and managed by third parts. This paper is an overview of data security issues in the cloud computing. Its objective is to highlight the principal issues related to data security that raised by cloud environment. To do this, these issues was classified into three categories: 1-data security issues raised by single cloud characteristics compared to traditional infrastructure, 2-data security issues raised by data life cycle in cloud computing (stored, used and transferred data), 3-data security issues associated to data security attributes (confidentiality, integrity and availability). For each category, the common solutions used to secure data in the cloud were emphasized.