Identifying Cloud Computing Vulnerabilities

Author(s):  
Baldev Singh

Cloud computing is passing through development stage and with the passage process of development, cloud is also posing with security threats, challenges and risks. Lots of security threats, risks and challenges are directly or indirectly due to vulnerabilities in cloud environment. Virtualization is the process used in cloud computing through which software hardware is provided to the cloud users and also load balancing is possible in cloud resources and this process is also prone to various security threats and risks. Vulnerabilities and threats to the cloud services leads not only to the malpractices, misuse and exploitation of resources but also to the privacy violations and breaches in data. If these vulnerabilities are not properly identified and specific security measures are not adopted then cloud services will be adversely affected and hence there is dire need to address these vulnerabilities and threats at the cloud customer satisfaction level. In this paper various vulnerabilities and threats to the cloud computing are highlighted which are definitely instrumental to act as the basis of cloud computing security solutions.

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. 3989-3994
Author(s):  
Jaspreet Singh ◽  
Deepali Gupta ◽  
Neha Sharma

Nowadays, Cloud computing is developing quickly and customers are requesting more administrations and superior outcomes. In the cloud domain, load balancing has turned into an extremely intriguing and crucial research area. Numbers of algorithms were recommended to give proficient mechanism for distributing the cloud user’s requests for accessing pool cloud resources. Also load balancing in cloud should provide notable functional benefits to cloud users and at the same time should prove out to be eminent for cloud services providers. In this paper, the pre-existing load balancing techniques are explored. The paper intends to provide landscape for classification of distinct load balancing algorithms based upon the several parameters and also address performance assessment bound to various load balancing algorithms. The comparative assessment of various load balancing algorithms will helps in proposing a competent load balancing technique for intensify the performance of cloud data centers.


Author(s):  
K. Balaji, Et. al.

The evolution of IT led Cloud computing technology emerge as a new prototype in providing the services to its users on rented basis at any time or place. Considering the flexibility of cloud services, innumerable organizations switched their businesses to the cloud technology by setting up more data centers. Nevertheless, it has become mandatory to provide profitable execution of tasks and appropriate  resource utilization. A few approaches were outlined in literature to enhance performance, job scheduling, storage resources, QoS and load distribution. Load balancing concept permits data centers to avert over-loading or under-loading in virtual machines that as such is an issue in cloud computing domain. Consequently, it necessitate the researchers to layout and apply a proper load balancer for cloud environment. The respective study represents a view of problems and threats faced by the current load balancing techniques and make the researchers find more efficient algorithms.


Author(s):  
K. Balaji , Et. al.

The evolution of IT led Cloud computing technology emerge as a new prototype in providing the services to its users on rented basis at any time or place. Considering the flexibility of cloud services, innumerable organizations switched their businesses to the cloud technology by setting up more data centers. Nevertheless, it has become mandatory to provide profitable execution of tasks and appropriate  resource utilization. A few approaches were outlined in literature to enhance performance, job scheduling, storage resources, QoS and load distribution. Load balancing concept permits data centers to avert over-loading or under-loading in virtual machines that as such is an issue in cloud computing domain. Consequently, it necessitate the researchers to layout and apply a proper load balancer for cloud environment. The respective study represents a view of problems and threats faced by the current load balancing techniques and make the researchers find more efficient algorithms.


2018 ◽  
pp. 910-925
Author(s):  
Kashif Munir ◽  
Sellapan Palaniappan

Cloud computing is set of resources and services offered through the internet. Cloud services are delivered from data centers located throughout the world. Enterprises are rapidly adopting cloud services for their businesses, measures need to be developed so that organizations can be assured of security in their businesses and can choose a suitable vendor for their computing needs. In this chapter we identify the most vulnerable security threats/attacks in cloud computing, which will enable both end users and vendors to know about the key security threats associated with cloud computing and propose relevant solution directives to strengthen security in the cloud environment. This chapter also discusses secure cloud architecture for organizations to strengthen the security.


Author(s):  
Kashif Munir ◽  
Sellapan Palaniappan

Cloud computing is set of resources and services offered through the internet. Cloud services are delivered from data centers located throughout the world. Enterprises are rapidly adopting cloud services for their businesses, measures need to be developed so that organizations can be assured of security in their businesses and can choose a suitable vendor for their computing needs. In this chapter we identify the most vulnerable security threats/attacks in cloud computing, which will enable both end users and vendors to know about the key security threats associated with cloud computing and propose relevant solution directives to strengthen security in the cloud environment. This chapter also discusses secure cloud architecture for organizations to strengthen the security.


2021 ◽  
pp. 4171-4180
Author(s):  
Manal F. Younis

Nowadays, after the technological development in societies, cloud computing has become one of the most important technologies. It provides users with software, hardware, and platform as remote services over the Internet. The increasing number of cloud users has caused a critical problem in how the clients receive cloud services when the cloud is in a state of instability, as it cannot provide required services and, thus, a delay occurs. Therefore, an algorithm was proposed to provide high efficiency and stability to work, because all existing tasks must operate without delay. The proposed system is an enhancement shortest job first algorithm (ESJF) using a time slice, which works by taking a task in the shortest time first and then the longest first from the queue. Through the experimental results in decreasing the waiting and completion time of the task, as well as taking into account reducing tasks starvation, the result of the proposed ESJF algorithm was compared with the traditional shortest job first (SJF) algorithm. These algorithms were applied when all tasks arrived at the same time, and it proved that the ESJF algorithm works more efficiently compared to SJF.


Author(s):  
M. Chaitanya ◽  
K. Durga Charan

Load balancing makes cloud computing greater knowledgeable and could increase client pleasure. At reward cloud computing is among the all most systems which offer garage of expertise in very lowers charge and available all the time over the net. However, it has extra vital hassle like security, load administration and fault tolerance. Load balancing inside the cloud computing surroundings has a large impact at the presentation. The set of regulations relates the sport idea to the load balancing manner to amplify the abilties in the public cloud environment. This textual content pronounces an extended load balance mannequin for the majority cloud concentrated on the cloud segregating proposal with a swap mechanism to select specific strategies for great occasions.


Author(s):  
Yuvaraj Natarajan ◽  
Srihari Kannan ◽  
Gaurav Dhiman

Background: Cloud computing is a multi-tenant model for computation that offers various features for computing and storage based on user demand. With increasing cloud users, the usage increases that highlights the problem of load balancing with limited resource availability based on dynamic cloud environment. In such cases, task scheduling creates fundamental issue in cloud environment. Introduction: Certain problems such as, inefficiencies in load balancing latency, throughput ratio, proper utilization of the cloud resources, better energy consumption and response time have been observed. These drawbacks can be efficiently resolved through the incorporation of efficient load balancing and task scheduling strategies. Method: In this paper, we develop an efficient co-operative method to solve the most recent approaches against load balancing and task scheduling have been proposed using Ant Colony Optimization (ACO). These approaches enables in the clear cut identification of the problems associated with the load balancing and task scheduling strategies in the cloud environment. Results: The simulation is conducted to find the efficacy of the improved ACO system for load balancing in cloud than the other methods. The result shows that the proposed method obtains reduced execution time, reduced cost and delay. Conclusion: A unique strategic approach is developed in this paper, Load Balancing, which works with the ACO in relation to the cloud workload balancing task through the incorporation of the ACO technique. The strategy for determining the applicant nodes is based on which the load balancing approach would essentially depend. By incorporating two different approaches: the maximum minute rules and the forward-backward ant, this reliability task can be established. This method is intended to articulate the initialization of the pheromone and thus upgrade the relevant cloud-based physical properties.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.21) ◽  
pp. 355
Author(s):  
P Sheela Gowr ◽  
N Kumar

Cloud computing was a hasting expertise which has innovated to a collection of new explores. A sub-ordinate device for Information services, it has an ability towards encourage development by feeding convenient environments for a choice of forms of development is different sequence. Clouds usually consider being eco-friendly, however keep it has open to the diversity of some security issues to can change together the feeder as well as users of these cloud services. In this issue are principally associated to the protection of the information flow throughout also being store in the cloud, with simple problems along with data ease of use, data right to use and data confidentiality. Data encryption and service authentication scheme has been initiated by the industries to deal with them. In this paper analyse and examine different issues on security beside with the different procedure worn by the industries to solve these effects. 


Cloud computing is a research trend which bring various cloud services to the users. Cloud environment face various challenges and issues to provide efficient services. In this paper, a novel Genetic Algorithm based load balancing algorithm has been implemented to balance the load in the network. The literature review has been studied to understand the research gap. More specifically, load balancing technique authenticate the network by enabling Virtual Machines (VM). The proposed technique has been further evaluated using the Schedule Length Runtime (SLR) and Energy consumption (EC) parameters. Overall, the effective results has been obtained such as 46% improvement in consuming the energy and 12 % accuracy for the SLR measurement. In addition, results has been compared with the conventional approaches to validate the outcomes.


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