Customers do not know enough about the security policies and practices of the service providers to give them confidence in the service, and without this knowledge and audit assessments they cannot meet many of the regulatory and compliance obligations that they have. The difficulties of integrating cloud services Newcastle with corporate applications extend to identity and access management systems, further complicating the security posture of the service.
For most providers, the increased efficiency of from sharing resources and reassigning them between customers to balance variations in their workloads. However, data can leak or be corrupted while it is in use, at rest and in transit. There is also a risk of disruption due to denial of service attacks, or simply because there are insufficient processing resources in the shared environment.
Reference: sustain-ict