Advances in Cyber Security and Intelligent Analytics

Chapter 6Addressing the cybersecurity issues in cloud computing

Shivanshu Oliyhan and Chandrashekhar Azad

DOI: 10.1201/9781003269144-6

CONTENTS

• 6.1 Introduction

  • 6.1.1 Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)

  • 6.1.2 Software as a service (SaaS)

  • 6.1.3 Platform as a service (PaaS)

• 6.2 Issues in public and private cloud security

  • 6.2.1 Attacks on the networks

  • 6.2.2 Insecure APIs

  • 6.2.3 Data breaches

  • 6.2.4 Data access by government organization

• 6.3 A brief study of cyberattacks in cloud computing

  • 6.3.1 Network security

  • 6.3.2 Access control

  • 6.3.3 Denial of service (DoS)

  • 6.3.4 Cloud services unavailability

  • 6.3.5 Loss of data

• 6.4 Cyberattacks on the network

  • 6.4.1 Ransomware

  • 6.4.2 Service hijacking

  • 6.4.3 Cryptojacking

  • 6.4.4 Man in the cloud attack