Brief Study to Explore Trust and Security Challenges in Cloud Computing

Abstract

Cloud Computing is an online strategy for dynamic allocation of services by reducing the usage of hardware and software resources. Existing models of cloud computing include different components: end-user computers, contact networks, access control frameworks, and software infrastructures. The data and the cloud infrastructure must be protected from any known and unknown attacks on all cloud platforms to achieve comprehensive cloud security. Trust issues arise from uncertainty about certain actions that can be defined through the concept of fuzzy belief. Trust is faith in quality provided by the cloud service provider and third-party agent on consumers and vice-versa where quality can be considered in terms of functionality, security, privacy, data safety, and reliability on cloud resources. Although the members of a social network have a strong level of trust, this trust may not be adequate in certain cases and becomes an obstacle in the successful implementation of cloud services. For example, a storage facility where users are vulnerable to missing, infected, or corrupted data, while providers are at risk of unknown data being hosted from their network. The relationship between two business partners decays more rapidly relative to the trust of users in the social network of the cloud. This paper aims to address the trust issues in existing cloud paradigms and highlights the existing flaws which will be resolved in the future course of action.