An overview of issues and recent developments in cloud computing and storage security

The recent rapid growth in the availability and popularity of cloud services allows for convenient on demand remote storage and computation. Security and privacy concerns, however, are among the top impediments standing in the way of wider adoption of cloud technologies. That is, in addition to the new security threats that emerge with the adoption of new cloud technology, a lack of direct control over one's data or computation demands new techniques for service provider's transparency and accountability. The goal of this chapter is to provide a broad overview of recent literature covering various aspects of cloud security. We describe recently discovered attacks on cloud providers and their countermeasures, as well as protection mechanisms that aim at improving privacy and integrity of client's data and computations. The topics covered in this survey include authentication, virtualization, availability, accountability, and privacy and integrity of remote storage and computation.