User Privacy and Security in Cloud Computing

Abstract

Many clients worry about their susceptibility to attack if their businesses’ crucial IT resources and information are outside the firewall. The extremely scalable nature of Cloud Computing allows its users to access huge amounts of data and use distributed computational resources via different interfaces. Cloud entities such as cloud service providers, users and business associates share the offered resources at diverse levels of technological operations. This research paper focuses on the user privacy and security in cloud computing and the solutions to improve privacy and security of cloud computing. The study employs UEC (Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud) Eucalyptus for simulation, which is the accepted open source cloud computing software as a solution. The paper assesses how security and privacy issues transpire in the context of cloud computing and examines ways in which they might be addressed. This paper aims to solve privacy and security issues in cloud computing using UEC (Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud). The methodology used involves encrypting and decrypting data to ensure privacy and security in the cloud.