Cloud Storage Security Risks, Practices and Measures: A Review

The world has seen a quick transition from hard devices for local storage to massive virtual data centers, all possible because of cloud storage technology. This has brought about the advent of transfer and sharing of data between multiple individuals and organizations, making it one of the most commonly used services on the cloud platform. Businesses have grown to be scalable, meeting consumer demands on every turn. However, with massive developments in this field, security and privacy are at the forefront of concerns and needs. Poor data visibility, storage sinks without secured pointers, instances with massive data overflows, etc. are concerns that can cause monetary and information damage to people on a large scale. With this in mind, current data security and advisory methods to monitor data sinks is one of the biggest challenges we face today. This paper aims to look at some of the security concerns and current state of the art implementations to refurbish the same.