Security in cloud computing approaches and solutions

Cloud computing has emerged as a popular computing model, with numerous advantages both to end users and providers. The obvious huge advantage is that customers can outsource their infrastructures and benefit of the best technologies and characteristics at low costs. The cost benefits offered by cloud technologies is one of the major reasons that stimulate the growth of cloud computing in many industries. In few years, cloud computing´s acceptance from enterprises is increasing but businesses are now finding that there is a number of issues related to security that have to be addressed when venturing into the cloud. As more and more sensitive data and personal information placed in the cloud, security concerns grow up. Building trust in providers it is not an easy mission with an amount of outages and threats declared since adoption of cloud computing. In this paper, an overview on security issues in cloud computing and some solutions to deal with them will be presented.