Innovative companies rapidly deploy hybrid cloud computing to leverage
highly scalable, flexible, and secure infrastructure, services, and
applications. Hybrid cloud computing accelerates modern businesses by
supporting innovation and faster development and deployment of
cloud-hosted services and applications. Companies leverage innovative
models such as Platform as a service, infrastructure as a service, and
software to achieve strategic goals and objectives. However, despite the
immense benefits, cloud computing is vulnerable to multiple
cybersecurity threats and attacks. Distributing services and
applications in a hybrid cloud computing environment requires secured
and encrypted security solutions—the complex connection between
various cloud infrastructures and varied configurations sophisticate
data security in a cloud computing environment. The proposed security
solution leverages a hybrid of cryptography and steganography to provide
robust security and privacy of data in cloud computing. The algorithms
and techniques combined include Rivest Sharmir Adelman, Advanced
Encryption Standard, and Least Significant Bit. The security model
designed and developed using design science research methodology adds an
extra layer of security by integrating data backup and recovery
mechanisms and best practices.