INVESTIGATIVE ANALYSIS OF SECURITY ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN CLOUD COMPUTING AND THEIR COUNTER MEASURES

Cloud Computing is a recent technology paradigm that enables organizations or individuals to share various services in a seamless, flexible and cost-effective manner. In the modern era of business operation, t he technical adoption of cloud services are high on rise by the large scale to small scale business establishment on various products and services. Despite the potential gains achieved from the cloud computing, the organizations a re slow in accepting it. Organizations which consider adopting cloud based services must also understand the many major problems of information policy including issues of privacy, security, reliability, access and regulation.