Cloud Computing Security Issues and Control Mechanisms

In cloud computing services, security and privacy concerns are like those of traditional non-cloud services, concerns are amplified by outer control over organizational resources and the potential for mismanagement of those resources. Transitioning to public cloud computing includes an exchange of responsibility and control to the cloud provider over data and system components that were already under the organization-s direct control. The transition is normally accompanied by loss of direct control over the management of operations furthermore a loss of impact over decisions made about the computing environment. Regardless this underlying loss of control, the cloud service consumer still needs to take responsibility for their utilization of cloud computing services to keep up situational awareness, measure choices, set needs, and impact changes in security and privacy that are to the greatest advantage of the organization. The consumer attains to this by guaranteeing that the contract with the provider and its related Service Level Agreement (SLA) has proper provisions for security and privacy. Specifically, the SLA must help keep up legal protections for security identifying with information stored on the provider-s system. The consumer must also ensure proper integration of the cloud computing services with their own systems for managing security and privacy.