Loss of trust at IAAS level: Causing factors & mitigation techniques

Today the focus in IT has shifted to the cloud. The cloud offers a near perfect solution for the organization. It benefits the organization with minimum investment and overhead administration costs. Thus, many of the organizations are ardently trying to avail the benefits of cloud services. However, there are concerns which inhibit them from going ahead and adopting the cloud for conducting their business operations. The barrier is in terms of apprehension for lack of trust due to several inexplicable reasons. However, cloud service providers are undertaking various steps to address the issue but this is the domain in which the coordination of several stakeholders is warranted. For example, the government needs to regulate the working of the cloud service providers, research workers to explore options that can be implemented; hence, suitable actions are required which can be taken to develop the issues of trust and security of the business data in the cloud. This paper is an attempt to address the major issues that are affecting the security and ultimately causing distrust at IAAS. Through this paper, we have tried to propose some solutions or techniques, which if adopted and implemented, will go a long way in sustaining trust.