Securing Software as a Service Model of Cloud Computing: Issues and Solutions
It addresses security problems for IT professionals and businesses using cloud services, but is incremental as it surveys existing issues without proposing new solutions.
The paper analyzes security issues in cloud computing, focusing on the Software as a Service (SaaS) model, and provides a survey-based overview of challenges and future research directions.
Cloud computing, undoubtedly, has become the buzzword in the IT industry today. Looking at the potential impact it has on numerous business applications as well as in our everyday life, it can certainly be said that this disruptive technology is here to stay. Many of the features that make cloud computing attractive, have not just challenged the existing security system, but have also revealed new security issues. This paper provides an insightful analysis of the existing status on cloud computing security issues based on a detailed survey carried by the author. It also makes an attempt to describe the security challenges in Software as a Service (SaaS) model of cloud computing and also endeavors to provide future security research directions.