Risk Involved in Cloud Data Storage and its Safety Measures

Abstract

computing is a technology which will facilitate companies or organisation to host their services without worrying about IT infrastructure and other supporting services. Usually cloud computing services are delivered by a third party - Cloud Service Provider(CSP) provider who owns the infrastructure. Cloud computing offers an innovative business model for organizations to adopt IT services without upfront investment. Despite the potential gains achieved from the cloud computing, the organizations are slow in accepting it due to security issues and challenges associated with it. In this paper we focus on risks involved in data storage in cloud computing and solutions to minimize the risks. KeywordsCloud Service Provider; access control; data Server; Software License Agreement 1. INTRODUCTIONand managing a corporate network is a difficult task when the network grows. The increasing growth increases the need for extra resources. Storage is one such resource which grows high and increases the security issues and challenges associated with it. Most of the owners prefer to invest on larger hard drives while others on external storage devices (Compact Discs, Thump drive etc.). The cloud data storage is the alternate for these storage resources and facilitates with major needs of customer.