A Survey on Cloud Computing Security Issues, Attacks and Countermeasures

Cloud computing is an emerging technology which has laid the foundation of a new approach to computation for individuals as well as enterprises. There is an increasing trend of cloud adoption in recent years. Security has always been a major concern in cloud. Cloud platforms and computations are constantly under threats from attackers. In this paper, we will make a survey on major security concerns, attacks as well as solutions to limit the possibilities of attack in a cloud computing environment.