Analyzing and Surveying Trust In Cloud Computing Environment

Cloud computing is the most discussed research area now-a-days which helps to provide elasticity and flexibility in using the computing resources and services to fulfill the requirement of current businesses. Besides many advantages offered by cloud computing, it deals with many obstacles in the path of its growth, that are security issues, data privacy issues and distrust on cloud service providers (CSP). Trust is found to be an essential element for achieving security and confidence in the use of distributed computing. Various issues like data control, ownership, data integrity and security can be considered as important parameters of trust. This paper addresses the existing trust models for trust establishment in cloud services and also tries to find out the shortcomings of these models. KeywordsTrust, Issues of Trust, Trust Models, User Based Trust Models.