CYBERSECURITY IN THE AGE OF CLOUD COMPUTING: A REVIEW OF THREATS AND MITIGATION STRATEGIES

Abstract

Cloud computing has brought a revolution in the field of information technology by providing flexibility to the management of the data and efficient resource allocation as well as providing affordable services. The application of cloud infrastructures has equally been related to cybersecurity threats since the dependency is escalated. It is giving an elaboration on the most important threats to cloud environments. It is engaging data breaches, identity thefts, unprotected APIs, insider attacks, and vulnerability of the virtualization layers. The two additional emerging issues that are raised by the study are cross-tenant attacks, configuration errors, and inefficient use of shared resources. The author singles out the main mitigation steps that would contribute to the upsurge in the cloud resilience. It involves the use of models of zero-trust security designs, sophisticated encryption and key management systems, intrusion detection systems that use artificial intelligence, as well as checking of identity by implementing blockchain. The analysis indicates the necessity of the active practice of governance. The effective policies of access control, and compliance with international standards of cybersecurity regulation to define compliance and accountability. The active and intelligence-led monitoring defense mechanisms assist organizations in improving the security of information. The discussion on cloud cybersecurity through the provision of a synthesis of threats and mitigating measures that need to be digitally reliable in the age of distributed computing continues to date.