Network security analysis for cloud computing environment

Abstract

Information technology services for businesses and consumers can be delivered via the Internet using cloud computing (CC) because it is agile, cost-effective, and time-tested. For many real-world applications, the data are kept in the cloud by a third-party service and accessible through the Internet as needed through CC approaches. Risks associated with CC involve the data security and network security account for real-time systems. This paper discusses different security threats in CC and suggests a solution by designing a network security analysis scheme with machine learning (NSA-ML). The ML classifier predicts the network vulnerabilities and prevents insecure communication in a CC environment. The proposed NSA-ML presents a data authentication scheme with a novel encryption methodology to ensure data security. The experimental results show that the proposed NSA-ML outperforms the existing cloud security approaches by gaining an efficiency of 95.4%.