Cloud Computing and its Security Issues

Abstract

Cyber security is a major concern to cloud service vendors, social networks, money transfer services and mostly the user. Lack of cyber security causes losses to companies and even death to new social media users. Without cyber security, cloud adoption becomes a problem because the user is not satisfied of the safety of his/her information in cloud storage. Many companies have adopted the cloud computing system to improve on their storage facilities and save on the cost of buying the hardware. Cloud computing services are efficient to the user and he/she can easily retrieve information with any device connected to the internet. Using the cloud computing services, however, comes with challenges. It is can be attacked by hackers to be used to their advantage, just like other internet provided services. The paper will use a pragmatic approach to compare company performance on those adopted to cloud computing and those that still use traditional methods of storing data along with the importance of cyber security to the government and the public.