Security and service assurance issues in Cloud environment

Abstract

Cloud security and service assurance is a wide research area with an unrestrained amount of apprehensions, ensuring equipment and stage innovations, to secure information and asset access. In spite of the colossal advantages of Cloud computing paradigm, the security and service concerns have consistently been the center of various Cloud clients and obstruction to its extensive acceptance. The paper reports a meticulous review in the field of Cloud computing with a focus on the security risk assessment and service assurance. This effort will serve as a ready reckoner to the research aspirants to encompass a general thought of the risk factors in security and the service assurance in a Cloud environment. © 2016, The Society for Reliability Engineering, Quality and Operations Management (SREQOM), India and The Division of Operation and Maintenance, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden.