Authentication Issues and Techniques in Cloud Computing Security: A Review

Abstract

Cloud Computing is a service which is rapidly increasing its growth in IT industry in recent years. The privacy and security is main challenging issue for the cloud users as well providers. The main security issues in Cloud computing are Virtualization Security, Access Control, Authentication, Application Security, Availability of Services etc. Most important issue raised in this era of cloud is Authentication, in which the identity of a user requesting for services are checked. Hence, this paper would like to discuss the methods of user Authentication and Challenges faced in this technique.