A Framework for Secure Cloud Based Computing in Higher Educational Institution

Abstract

The students are becoming more technology oriented and the classroom teaching is changing, therefore it’s changing to enhance. Because of its vast advantages, one of the latest technologies of students’ learning currently for education is cloud computing. By sharing IT services in the cloud, educational institution can offer the essential tools to students, teachers, faculty, and staff to help them succeed. However, there is several security challenges associated with cloud environment that inhibit the proper adoption of this technology. Mostly organization wants a framework to keep their data more secure over cloud. This paper focuses on the attacks and risks of cloud computing on the education system and how can provide the quality education by solving the security challenges of this technology. It presents proposed framework to avoid security risks efficiently when adopting cloud computing in institutions of higher educational services. The proposed system identifies security and privacy challenges, highlights cloud-specific attacks and threats and clearly illustrates how to mitigate these attacks and threats.