Study on Information Security in Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as a model for providing convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources which can be quickly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or cloud provider interaction. Cloud Computing refers to the following concepts of Grid Computing, Utility Computing, software as a service, storage in the cloud and virtualization. A client accessing a provider's service remotely is referred to as cloud. Cloud computing has the ability to redefine how businesses handle information technology while also changing the economics of hardware and software. Cloud computing promised to bring a new breed of entrepreneur to the fore, allowing them to launch their business with no upfront investment in IT equipment. The main purpose of this work is to identify privacy and security concerns among cloud computing participants and consumers in a distributed environment.