Review on Information Security Risk and Control Measures Based on Cloud Computing Environment

The high cost of data security breaches raises the reputation of information security for all information users. Public and governmental organizations that offer information services to citizens must protect their services and train their employees to safeguard their information assets. To ensure the stability and efficiency of the data services, several users and organizations are shifting their services to cloud environments. Cloud computing provides services to users including Software as Services (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Services (IaaS), and Platform as a services (PaaS) with high degree of data confidentiality, integrity, and availability but observation show that there is a major problem of data leaking and attacks on the organization setup which therefore hindering the effectiveness of cloud services among users. This paper reviews the potential risks related to cloud computing and determines control measures to overcome the data privacy issue based on the general and architectural cloud environment.