Enhancing Cloud Security By Using Secure Apis In Business Enterprises In The USA

Abstract

- Cloud security is a discipline dedicated to securing cloud computing systems by ensuring that data and privacy of individuals and organizations are safe across online-based infrastructure, applications, and platforms. Whether it is an individual, enterprise or small to medium businesses, any user who uses cloud services should ensure the security of these systems as these can be beneficial to both the cloud providers and the clients. Although cloud computing offers a lot of benefits, it is very susceptible to security threats which is one of the reasons that some businesses and organizations are hesitant to adopting it. Cloud computing can be vulnerable to security attacks which includes but not limited to misconfigured cloud storage, insecure APIs, poor access control, HTTP-DoS and XML-DoS attacks, virtualization/hypervisor vulnerabilities, compliance violations and regulatory actions, and cloud outages. Though there are many vulnerabilities affecting cloud services, the focus of this literature review will be on improving cloud security with emphasis on secure APIs. This study offers a bibliometric analysis that explores the solution to cloud security challenges by systematic review of existing literature on cloud security with focus on securing APIs which would enhance business enterprises in the USA. This literature review will include comparing various works from different authors including books, conference materials, articles, other literature reviews, empirical studies and scientific journals within the last 21 years to provide a comprehensive look within the context of this topic. The work utilized the steps in bibliometric analysis to examines the challenge associated with cloud security by reviewing 24 articles in the cloud security related areas