Analysing Threats in Cloud Storage

Cloud storage is becoming an option for users in keeping their data online, but it comes with the security threats and challenges of protecting their data from threats. Many security frameworks have been suggested by existing studies, governing bodies, industry standards etc. as guidelines to be implemented by cloud service providers (CSPs) but the complete set of controls cannot be fully implemented due to several challenges such as decreasing availability, less user convenience, need of a robust infrastructure etc. Therefore, there is a need to investigate the security requirements and threats which will enable efficient security protection to protect data in cloud storage. This paper will discuss security requirements and analyses existing cloud security threats. The threats will be modelled in a cloud storage scenario. Future work will involve confirming the security framework using a triangulation method. This will involve confirming the idea with experts and simulations of the designated security requirements on cloud storage that will be used to test the framework.