ABSTRACT
The main objective of this chapter is to provide an overview of security issues in cloud computing. After reading this chapter, you will
• Understand the different security aspects • Understand the security issues in cloud service models • Understand identity management and access control issues related
to security • Understand audit and compliance in security
Security is an important aspect to be considered in the cloud computing environment. This chapter focuses on different aspects of security. We begin with the introduction to cloud security. Subsequent sections talk about data security; virtualization security; security issues in Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS) models; etc. This chapter also considers privacy challenges and identity and access management issues in cloud. After reading this chapter, the reader can get an overview of security issues in different service models in cloud. The reader can also get an idea of challenges in these security issues.
