Security Threats and Their Mitigation in Infrastructure as a Service

Publication date: Available online 5 June 2016 Source:Perspectives in Science Author(s): Bineet Kumar Joshi, Mohit Kumar Shrivastava, Bansidhar Joshi Cloud computing is a hot technology in the market. It permits user to use all IT resources as computing services on the basis of pay per use manner and access the applications remotely. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is the basic requirement for all delivery models. Infrastructure as a service delivers all possible it resources (Network Components, Operating System, etc.) as a service to users. From both users and providers point of view: integrity, privacy and other security issues in IaaS are the important concern. In this paper we studied in detail about the different types of security related issues in IaaS layer and methods to resolve them to maximize the performance and to maintain the highest level of security in IaaS.

Source: Perspectives in Science - June 5, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: research