Cloude Security Threats Survey

Cloud computing is current buzzword in the market. The popularity of clouds has driven privacy laws and data residency restrictions around the world. Cloud computing promises to serve enterprise computing needs while providing cost savings, particularly in the area of capital H/W, data centers managements and software development. Confidentiality, integrity, availability, authenticity and privacy are essential concerns for both cloud providers and consumers. This paper identifies threats and attacks related to the IaaS layer (Infrastructure as a service) and types of attacks and elaborated study of IaaS components security.