Software as a Service Security Challenges in Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is clearly one of today‟s most enticing technology areas to its cost-efficiency and flexibility. There is a growing trend of using cloud services for ever growing storage and data processing needs. However, adopting a cloud computing paradigm may have positive as well as negative effects on the security of service consumers. This paper primarily aims to highlight the major security challenges existing in current cloud computing Service Provider Software as a Service (SaaS). We also describe some elements of our vision. The core issue is that with the advent of the cloud, the cloud provider also has some control of the cloud users data. We aim to provide tools supporting the current capabilities of the cloud while limiting cloud provider control of data and enabling all cloud users to benefit from cloud data through enhanced business intelligence.