Science and Technology,

Cloud Computing sees a technical and cultural shift of computing service provision from being provided locally to being provided remotely, and en masse, by third-party service providers. Data that was once housed under the security domain of the service user has now been placed under the protection of the service provider. Users have lost control over the protection of their data: No longer is our data kept under our own watchful eyes. It is argued that obfuscation of one's data is not enough when seeking to protect data. The control of how one's data is used and the trust afforded to service providers is equally as important. In this paper Cloud computing security issues to be found within the cloud from both a technical and socio-technical perspective ar