Abstract

Various reasons such as maintaining security or even financial and technological resource limitations might be the objective of organizations or individuals to shift to the cloud computing environment. After that the main burden of preserving the security of the data and privacy of the consumer is on the service provider. Due to the variety of technologies used in a cloud environment a broad range of challenges exist that are threats for the security and privacy of the whole environment. For this reason, after presenting the features of a cloud computing environment we have introduced the security and privacy challenges and their possible solutions. Therefore, this paper could be a very good starting point since each side-consumer and provider-would be aware of their rights and responsibilities.

Keywords: Cloud computing, security, privacy, policy.


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