Abstract—Cloud computing is a present and future of the Technology (IT), to enhance the capacity of Information dynamically without investing capital for new infrastructure, training new personnel or licensing new software. With extending the IT’s present capabilities, it is growing radically. Enterprise customers are unenthusiastic to deploy their business in the cloud, because of security of the cloud computing. In this study, a survey of the different security risks is presented with proposal of new idea to build cloud with optical network which is suitable for the access network is considered as the one of highly secured for the cloud because of its optical devices.

Index Terms—Cloud computing, cloud computing security, cloud computing issues.

Nivedita M. Mathkunti is with the Alliance College of Engineering and Design, Alliance University, Bangalore-562106, Karnataka, India (e-mail: nivedita.manohar@alliance.edu.in).

Cite:Nivedita M. Mathkunti, "Cloud Computing: Security Issues," International Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 259-263, 2014.