SURVEY OF VARIOUS SECURITY ATTACKS IN CLOUDS BASED ENVIRONMENTS

Security is top concern for the people of IT from the past. With the advent of new technologies the severity of the problem has been changing its shape. A number of threats and their counter measures had been identified. Similar is the Cloud based environments. In spite of large number of features provided by Clouds, they are not able to attain attention of large number of business community. Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is the top most working group working on the security issues of the Clouds. In this paper we have studied the various security attacks (in general) with reference to the Clouds (as per The Treacherous 12 - Cloud Computing Top Threats in 2016, CSA report defeating insider threat survey(2016) ,Cyber Security Trends Report (2017)) and Malicious Insider attacks (in particular).