ABSTRACT

At an unparalleled rate, cloud computing has concurrently empowered the industries, governments, and corporations, besides causing new security concerns. The advancement in the model of cloud service brings more powerful enterprise-supporting technology than it has ever been. The transformation from conventional client/server models to service-based models changes the way the technological departments experienced, developed, and delivered computer technology and applications. Nevertheless, additional security challenges have also been spawned by the increased value provided by cloud computing developments, which include threat concerns whose full ramifications are still growing. This chapter fills a major gap by offering useful market insight into the cloud’s current risks, threats, and vulnerabilities. It includes other factors such as actors, risks, vulnerabilities, and impacts from real-world attacks and breaches. It intends to make knowledgeable risk-controlling decisions about cloud adoption strategies with more technical details dealing with architecture, compliance, risks, and mitigations. Also, this chapter addresses the limitations of the narratives and case studies identified, which provides a clear understanding of exactly how lessons and mitigation concepts can be applied in real-world scenarios.