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Abstract

Cloud Computing is a relatively new computing model that provides on demand business and IT services over the Internet. One of the main concerns in adapting Cloud Computing is its security. When outsourcing the data and business application to a third party cloud causes the security and privacy issues critical. Cloud service users need to understand the risk of data breaches in the cloud environment. In this paper, a survey of the various cloud computing models, different security risks that affects the cloud environment in the area of confidentiality, integrity and computing on data is thoroughly investigated. This paper also provides the solutions for the different security issues due to the cloud service delivery models.