An Analysis of Security Issues in Cloud Databases

Abstract

Cloud database is a kind of database service that is built, deployed and accessed through a cloud environment. Cloud database significantly stands among the next generation’s database technologies. Security and privacy of data in cloud databases is mostly taken into account as it stores, manages and share a wider volume of complex data. Hence, it is highly constrained into the Cloud Computing model. Even though, cloud computing has brought a new perspective towards the IT industry, we are not assuring 100% security and privacy of the data stored as it sometimes lacks with awareness and control of data, due to issues with transaction log of data and malicious acts. Furthermore, ethical problems such as trust issues from tenants arise due to the difficulty in outsourcing information without the barriers and attacks of a third-party user. Therefore, in cloud database has been contained security and privacy concerns associated with cloud database and how the services provided by a cloud database could be improved, will be discussed throughout this paper.