Welcome to my Blog

This is my first blog ever and I chose the Cloud Computing Security as a theme since it's something I'm really interested in learning more about personally.
We've all heard about Cloud Computing before but how much do we actually know about it and what security risks it poses for us and our organization?
Cloud Computing is becoming a money-saving solution, widely considered by companies that want to share some of the burden associated with managing and administering network and computer infrastructure within their organization. There are different models of cloud services defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), providing different level of involvement and investment between the provider and the consumer:

• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - servers, storage and network are provided to the customer on-demand; the customer chooses the operating system and deploys applications.
• Platform as a Service (PaaS) - great solution for software developers. The only responsibility the consumer has is deploying applications; the management of the underlying cloud infrastructure (servers, network, OS or storage) remains with the cloud provider.
• Software as a Service (SaaS) - an application is provided to the consumer as a service on demand (e.g. web-based email), the consumer only manages user-specific application configuration settings.

To me one of the major difficulties a company needs to overcome when choosing a Cloud Computing Service is finding the balance between available budget and how much control the company is willing to allow to the cloud provider. The less management and administrative work you want the more control you put in the provider's hands. 

Through this blog I will introduce you to some of the security risks to consider with Cloud Computing and how to mitigate them. I hope you enjoy!

Resources:

https://support.rackspace.com/white-paper/understanding-the-cloud-computing-stack-saas-paas-iaas/