Security Threats of Cloud Computing

Cloud computing presents a convenient environment and more advantages to business organizations to run their business, it’s benefits aims to make the location computing infrastructure shifted to the network in order to reduce the costs of hardware and software resources maintenance, also it offers the processing power and the computing resources of geographically distanced computers connected via internet. It has advantages such as outsourcing, scalability, efficiency, resilience, and non-core activities and flexibility. In this paper, cloud service models and deployment were introduced; cloud security challenges were investigated based on the cloud service models nature. Also this paper seeks to address various threats which face cloud computing and the possible solutions to demonstrate the techniques that hackers used against. DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.160413