Future security challenges in cloud computing

Abstract

Cloud computing is still a rapidly evolving landscape and with emerging technologies it created new security and non-security risks. Security challenges are one of the concerns about cloud computing, which is delaying its adoption. These challenges include lacking control over data, compliance risks, malicious insiders, access and identity management, secure virtualisation and many others. This paper gives an overview about cloud computing, describes general and security challenges and identifies future security research directions.