The biggest question of cloud computing is security or privacy?

In recent years, cloud computing, as one of the most promising vocabulary in the IT industry, has received attention from various industries. It not only provides greater support for enterprise development, but also becomes one of the signs of information technology progress. However, the obstacles behind the development of cloud computing can not be ignored, especially security and privacy have become the biggest obstacle to the development of cloud computing.

The rapid development of cloud computing has caused more and more problems related to its security and privacy to surface. When I looked at the data, I found that many people always confuse the security and privacy issues of cloud computing. In fact, there are certain differences between security and privacy. The author believes that privacy can be understood as one of the security issues. Then someone asks whether the biggest question of cloud computing is security or privacy? Perhaps the answers to different people are different.

When it comes to cloud computing, security issues cannot be avoided. In fact, this is also the biggest problem encountered in the promotion and application of cloud computing. Although cloud computing service providers are currently trying to downplay or avoid this topic, as a consumer, this is the key to their rejection. Currently, the commercial value of cloud computing has been proven. At the same time, these "clouds" have also become targets of hackers or various malicious organizations. For example, exploiting exploits by operating system or application service protocol vulnerabilities, or malicious attacks, theft, illegal exploitation of user privacy information stored in the "cloud", and so on. In fact, more serious security vulnerabilities are gradually eroding the security defenses of cloud computing service providers and large Internet vendors.

It can be seen from the above that privacy is also one of the security issues of cloud computing. It can be said that privacy is the most critical issue in security issues. Generally referred to as privacy by enterprises or individuals is an important information, especially for enterprises, if the disclosure of private information will inevitably cause a fatal blow to it. But another security issue is the attack on the system, which can lead to system paralysis, making the enterprise unable to operate normally, and the damage to the enterprise is not small. So it can be understood that security is the biggest problem in cloud computing, and security here includes privacy security and other security of the system.

In fact, the security issue of cloud computing mainly refers to the security of the use of "cloud" data. Many users want more data to be placed on the "cloud" so they spend less and get more convenience. But the more data is stored in the "cloud", the more data is likely to be abused. Perhaps if it is only unimportant data, the enterprise is not so concerned about it. If it is confidential data, that is, it belongs to corporate privacy, the data is stolen, and the attack on the enterprise is very big. This is why many companies dare not try. The reason for cloud computing.

In fact, the current privacy issue has become a social issue, especially when the cloud era is coming, privacy has become the focus of attention. Under the concept of cloud computing, a computer is no longer a separate machine, but a node in the network. This kind of computing task is handed over to the globally operating server network. While providing various convenient services, it is inevitable that more and more detailed personal information needs to be provided in order to obtain better services. On the other hand, more and more personal information is made public, making humans have no privacy. In particular, government agencies and public service agencies are increasingly publishing data containing personal information. Therefore, in the context of cloud computing, whether it is privacy in data distribution or location privacy in location services, the protection of user personal information is particularly important.

In addition to privacy security, the security of system operations is also a key consideration for cloud computing. If an enterprise's system is attacked by hackers or other malicious organizations, causing the system to collapse and the enterprise cannot operate normally for a certain period of time, the loss for the enterprise is not generally large. Especially for large enterprises, it may take a few minutes to have a big impact. If it is a day or even a few days, the loss will be imaginable. Although manufacturers and companies are already aware of this and are working hard to find an early solution to this problem, there is currently no satisfactory solution.

The rapid development of cloud computing is undeniable. It is understood that more than 50% of enterprises are considering using cloud computing services, and 12% of them value the cost-effectiveness of cloud computing services. However, security issues have become the main obstacle for these companies to choose cloud computing. An authoritative organization conducted a survey "What do you think are the challenges and problems of the cloud computing model?" The results show that security ranks first at 74.6%, showing that security is the biggest concern for cloud computing. In fact, today's cloud computing service providers and large Internet vendors are far from doing enough security. Most public cloud systems have security vulnerabilities, and hackers are able to find and exploit these vulnerabilities. This may lead to the leakage of privacy and the threat to the normal operation of the system. Therefore, in order to make the cloud computing continue to develop rapidly and stably in the future, it is necessary to solve such security problems, that is, security is still the biggest problem of cloud computing.