Threats and Security Issues in Cloud Storage and Content Delivery Networks: Analysis

Abstract

The rapid growth of technology tends to improve humans life, to save time and to impose a rhythm to human day to day activity. More than ever, the world is facing tremendous difficulties to acquire, ingest, process, save and visualize information. This is how big companies like AWS Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Alibaba are coming into the game by providing cloud computing to remediate to such difficulties. To help companies, organizations, corporates and users to store huge amounts of data, Cloud Service Providers provide storage in their data centers and even Content Delivery Network service to keep data to the closest location of users. Among those companies, some are using cloud storage as Content Delivery Network. Beside Cloud Service Providers, other big companies like Akamai or Cloudflare are specialized in Content Delivery Network. Therefore, which kind of threats are facing companies which use cloud storage as Content Delivery Network? Are those threats similar to companies specialized only on Content Delivery Networks? And what can be the impact of Content Delivery Network attacks on cloud storage used as Content Delivery Networks? The aim of this paper is to propose a new threat model of cloud storage used as Cloud Delivery Network and determine the level of risk on this last one.

Keywords

• cloud security
• content delivery network
• cloud storage
• data storage