Need for Cloud Security Audit

Abstract

Adoption of cloud architecture has increased tremendously over the last few years. The cloud market is currently placed at around USD 250 billion and as per some estimates this is supposed to grow to a trillion dollars by 2030 with a CAGR of around 17 per cent. With such massive scale of implementation of cloud based technologies comes the responsibility of ensuring integrity and reliability of applications hosted on the cloud. Breach of systems and data not only causes monetary loss to an organization but also impacts its reputation and credibility. Hence, security of cloud based solutions, and audit of such security is of critical importance. This article focuses on some basic aspects of cloud security audit.