Cloud Computing and Security Fundamentals

In today’s era almost all the organizations are preferring to use cloud as their primary storage. Once the organization uploads its data to cloud, then the organization has no control over it. Then comes the security challenges in handling data to cloud service providers. While selecting a Cloud Service Provider we need to be aware about that service provider before giving our data because as from now you will not have all the control. This paper gives a better understanding on the concept of cloud computing and the risks that came up after outsourcing data handling tasks. Section 1 is Introduction, Section 2 discusses on various Service Models in Cloud Computing, Section 3 contains Cloud Deployment Models, Section 4 focuses on Security Issues and Challenges in Cloud Computing.