State-of-The-Art of cloud computing cyber-security

During the last few years, there has been a rapid and an increasing development and adoption of cloud computing systems, technologies, applications and services. This is owing mainly to many benefits this technology offers for businesses and organizations. However, Cyber-security is considered among the most important issues and concerns for widespread adoption of cloud computing. Among the major issues related with Cloud Computing security we can mention data security, intrusions attacks, confidentiality and data integrity. This paper is dedicated to an overview study of the state of the art of cloud computing cyber-security. With the main objective to identify the main challenges and issues in this field, the different approaches and solutions proposed to address them and the open problems that need to be addressed. © 2015 IEEE.