Abstract: “Cloud computing is the emerging field of computer networking which is providing the opportunities to use hardware, infrastructure or application as a service over the cloud. Many organisations are considering cloud computing as cost effective, secure and suitable solution for their needs. However security concerns are involved with using cloud service provided by the third party. In this paper, we investigate the cloud computing, study on security awareness of the cloud service provides, critical security threats involved with cloud computing, good practices to ensure the security within cloud and the possibility of using ICMetrics or Biometrics based encryption to provide efficient security within cloud computing environment.”

Keywords: Cloud computing, cloud computing threats and risks, good security practice for cloud computing, ICMetrics.