Cloud Security

• Security • Costing model • Charging model • Service level agreement • Cloud interoperability issue

• Identification and Authenticity: • Authorization • Non-repudiation • Availability

• DNS attacks:      Domain hijacking: Domain hijacking is defined as changing the name of a domain without the knowledge or permission from the domain’s owner or creator. This enable the intruders to access the sensitive information.       Cross site scripting: It is a type of attack in which user enters right URL of a website and hacker on the other site redirect the user to its own website and hack its credentials. • IP spoofing:         DOS attack: When hackers overflows a network server or web server with frequent request of services to damage the network, the denial of service cannot keep up with them, server could not legitimate client regular requests. • Man in the middle attack: This is another issue of network security that will happen if secure socket layer (SSL) is not properly configured. • Network Sniffing: Another type of attack is network sniffer, it is a more cri...

• Guest hopping attack : An attacker will try get access to one virtual machine by penetrating another virtual machine hosted in the same hardware. • SQL injection: It can be done   by injecting the SQL commands into the database of an application to crash the      database.   • Malicious Insider: In private cloud, its employee is granted access to the sensitive data of some or all customer administrators. Such privileges may expose information to security threats. • Side channel attack: It occurs when an attacker places a malicious virtual machine on the same physical machine as the victim machine so that he can access all the confidential information on the victims machine.

• Cloud malware injection attack: In this attack a malicious virtual machine or a service implementation is injected into the cloud system. one solution to prevent this is to perform the integrity check to the service instance. • Cookie poisoning: In this an unauthorized access is made into the application by modifying the contents of the cookie. One solution is to clean up the cookie or encrypt the cookie data. • Backdoor and Debug Option: Debug option is for the developers who use it to implement  any changes requested at later stage in a website  since these debug option provides back entry for the  developers, sometimes these debug options are left enabled unnoticed, they may provide easy access to  the hackers  and allow them to make changes in the website. • Hidden Field Manipulation : Certain fields are hidden in the web-site and is used by the developers. Hacker can  easily modify on the web page .

• Data Breach : 1.Confidentiality                           2. Integrity • Data Lock in : Users may lose data if they migrate from one vendor to another vendor. • Data Remanence : It  is the residual representation of data that have been nominally erased or removed in some way. • Data Recovery : Sometimes server may break down and  cause damage or loss to users data. To avoid this, data should be backed up to be recovered in future • Data Locality:  In SaaS model of cloud environment, the user doesn’t know where the data is stored which may be an issue. The issue can  be solved by creating secure SaaS model which can provide reliability to the customer on the location of the data of the user.

• Software as a Service (SaaS):                  -- It offers renting application functionality from a service provider rather than buying, installing and running software by the user. • Platform as a Service ( PaaS ) :                 -- It provides a platform in the cloud, upon which applications can be developed and executed. • Infrastructure as a Service ( IaaS ) :                   -- vendors offer computing power and storage space on demand.

Private cloud                      The cloud is managed by an organization and serve it solely. Public cloud              --The cloud infrastructure is owned and managed by a large Cloud Service Provider (CSP). Community cloud                    --The cloud is managed by several organizations and supports a specific community that has the same interest. Hybrid cloud                    -- The cloud infrastructure is composed of two or more of the above models           

On demand-self service Broad Network access Resource pooling Rapid elasticity Measured service pricing

“Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.”          Cloud Computing by NIST It is an internet based computing where all the shared resources ,software and information are provided to the computers and devices on demand. Users can access the information from anywhere and anytime