TOUR TOWARDS THE SECURITY CHALLENGES OF VIRTUALIZATION IN CLOUD COMPUTING: A SURVEY

Abstract

In general, the consumers benefit from cloud computing because of its scalability, performance, flexibility, and low infrastructure investment. Everyone is moving from traditional services towards various cloud services at minimal cost. Because of the benefits of virtualization and data storage, people are increasingly embracing them and posing some new security issues. Using virtualization is an advantage for consumers because security is one of the features that are taken care to lesser extent. This paper summarizes the need for virtualization along with its benefits and multiple security vulnerabilities are explained in detail by a diagram that illustrates about virtualization security issues that are virtual machine based, Hypervisor based and virtual machine based attacks. There are some recommendations to strengthen the security and privacy in virtualization.