A review on cloud computing security challenges, attacks and its countermeasures.

The security challenges are more in the area of Cloud computing platform. The On-demand service of Cloud Computing secures a vital role in the industrial development and other IT sectors. This paper will try to provide the information based on the current threats and attacks on Cloud Computing and the solution to those attacks. Cloud Computing provides various set of service models like Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) respectively. The cloud security measures are still a challenging task for organizations and other IT Sectors to handle the external attacks. Concluding that this survey will leads to give an overview of threats, attacks and vulnerabilities in the era of Cloud platform as well as some of the countermeasures to protect the cloud. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]