The Cloud has intrinsic and dynamic characteristics of proactivity and interaction. From the customer's point of view, they might seem difficult to control with conventional IT security standards. Cloud computing security is, in reality, not isolated from the standard IT security and data protection policies and regulations. Main security concerns are:
Data protection
Sharing of resources
Differences in country legislations
The following document analyzes on one hand, security in virtualized environments from the Cloud customer’s point of view, justifying the importance of customer awareness about security issues in the Cloud.