Cloud computing security challenges & solutions-A survey

Cloud Computing and its’ related security issues as well as countermeasures are one of the highly debated topics in today's research field. Though, various surveys regarding Cloud security are already prevalent, there remains a certain gap between the proper mapping of these issues to their corresponding solutions. Some surveys present the Virtualization issues and solutions while other deal with the access control mechanisms, but what lacks is a common framework that would at the same time generalize the concept of cloud security as well as intricately analyze its’ specific requirements. Moreover, countermeasures that are provided in a survey must clearly depict the issue that it is handling. Keeping all these factors in mind this survey paper has been designed so as to cover the necessary areas with a proper interconnection between them and lastly discuss a set of open problems in this domain.