A Systematic Survey on Cloud Security Threats, Impacts and Remediation

Cloud computing has quickly become successful and popular because of the benefits provided like flexibility, cost effectiveness, and ease of deployment. Along with benefits, security is the utmost concern cloud computing is facing. Cloud specific attacks unknown to conventional environments and some noncloud attacks are affecting the cloud environment exponentially. Every year there is a visible rise of threats in the cloud environment, new tools and techniques are also being invented by threat actors. Any threat can cause a huge service disruption. Cloud security has been a main barrier in the utilization of the cloud particularly for the organizations who are dealing with sensitive data. How to cope up with these threats is the biggest challenge in front of different organizations. To stay ahead of these threats, service providers are applying distinct types of solutions. Advanced awareness of security threats can help cloud consumers in switching from their environment to cloud premises. This paper focuses on security trends of cloud computing infrastructure and expounds on cloud computing and its benefits. It also explains security threats, its impact and analysis of best practices and tools to counter these threats. It also tries to find out latest trends with the help of survey of active cloud users and professionals.