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A Survey on Cloud Computing Security Issues, Attacks and Countermeasures

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Cloud computing is an emerging technology which has laid the foundation of a new approach to computation for individuals as well as enterprises. There is an increasing trend of cloud adoption in recent years. Security has always been a major concern in cloud. Cloud platforms and computations are constantly under threats from attackers. In this paper, we will make a survey on major security concerns, attacks as well as solutions to limit the possibilities of attack in a cloud computing environment.

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  1. Department of MCA, College of IT & Management Education, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

    Deepak Ranjan Panda & Susanta Kumar Behera

  2. Information Security Laboratory, IIIT Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, 751003, India

    Debasish Jena

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

    Srikanta Patnaik

  2. Simulation and Modelling, School of Science and Technology, Middlesex University, London, UK

    Xin-She Yang

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA

    Ishwar K. Sethi

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Panda, D.R., Behera, S.K., Jena, D. (2021). A Survey on Cloud Computing Security Issues, Attacks and Countermeasures. In: Patnaik, S., Yang, XS., Sethi, I. (eds) Advances in Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence. Algorithms for Intelligent Systems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5243-4_47

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