A Study of Security Threats in Cloud: Passive Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic

Recently, the life in Earth becomes turbulent with the worldwide spread of novel coronavirus (COVID-19). This outbreak has been declared as a public health emergency in the level of international concern by world health organization (WHO). To reduce the spread of COVID19 entire world has adopted social distancing, where working and learning from home is the new normal for this new world. To sustain the economical revenue and business growth companies that radically move into cloud infrastructure to support employees, who work remotely. With the unprecedented growth of cloud, data breaches and cyber security takes a huge leap. Apart from big cloud vendor small cloud startups are getting huge leap currently. Starting from enterprise solution providers, cloud supports in education, e-commerce, and healthcare also. Hackers penetrating not only the cloud resources it also hampers the hosts and device connected with it. This paper discovers several security challenges due to the sudden use of cloud platforms without adequate precautions. The aim of this paper is to highlight these areas causing security breaches and propose generic preventive measures.