Cloud computing security or Cloud security is treated as a sub-domain of computer security , network security broadly comes under Information Security.
Cloud security is a set of policies, technology and control used to protect data, application etc. and infrastructure of cloud computing.
Cloud computing provides user and enterprises to store and compute data to a third party data storage centers. Organizations treated cloud as a variety of service model (SaaS, PaaS, Iaas) and the deployment model (Private, Public, Hybrid, Community).
Security issues
- security issues faced by cloud providers : organizations provides services like software, platform or Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) vie cloud.
- security issues faced by customers: companies or organizations that host applications or store data in the cloud.
Cloud Security controls
- Deterrent controls: These controls are used to reduce attacks on cloud contains warning sign.
- Preventive Controls: Strong authentications of users
- Detective Controls: It is used to detect and react to any incident occurs using system and network security monitoring like intrusion detection and prevention policies.
- Corrective Controls: This control reduce the consequences of any incident, limited the damages, effective in during or after the incident, restoring system backups.
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