Cloud computing is predicted to be the future technology. This paradigm is considered to be offering infinite resources and comprehensive security, due to the application of modern techniques and highly skilled personnel employed. Despite of highly skilled manpower is looking after the cloud; cybercriminals have managed to attack cloud. This work undertakes the study of threats that exist in cloud computing, the type of industries on target of cybercriminals. In addition, we have carried out the detailed study on the industries which are targeted and the method employed by the cybercriminals to target these industries. This work will be extremely helpful to researchers and enterprises to know the type of cyber attack occurring in this newly evolved paradigm and to evolve the new methods to counter them.
Keywords
Cyber security, cloud attack, cybercrime, resource protection
1 Introduction
Enterprises and individual users are outsourcing their services on the web, instead of maintaining the resources of their own. Outsourcing of technical resources enables the organization to concentrate on business need instead of technical aspect, which is looked after by the expert of the IT area. To facilitate such users, a web based paradigm known as cloud computing has emerged and offering the services on utility model [p3]. The major goal of Cloud computing is to reduce the operating cost, increase throughput, increase the reliability and availability [p10].
To cater the wide variety of users, cloud is offering three types of services. These services include Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) ( Mell & Grance, 2011). In IaaS users are offered the computing capabilities such as pr...
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