CONCEPTUAL MODEL DEPICTING RISK FACTORS INFLUENZING CLOUD DATA SECURITY

Cloud Platform has the data stored in a remote server and accessed with the help of services provided by cloud service providers. The primary objective is to provide data security due to the confidentiality of data transmitted to the remote server, over an unmonitored and multi-tenancy channel (internet). The major components of cloud platform are application, service, runtime cloud, storage and infrastructure. This is a conceptual paper trying to explain the risk factors to be deemed in a cloud environment. The benefits include scalability, availability, reliability, flexibility, increased collaboration, competitive edge, sustainability, reduced proportional cost. Risk factors influencing the data security and Integrity are identified up to three level of sub-constructs. All the risk factors including hackers, mishandling of passwords, risk of data accessed from public /unmonitored sources, security in communication channels, intentional and unintentional data security threats created due to human interference are included in the scope of this paper. In this paper, the identification of sub factors of cloud data security risk components is achieved. The futuristics scope of this paper is to identify early risk prediction and mitigation strategies to all the identified risk factors related to data security by implementing SEM methodology.