Analysis of Insiders Attack Mitigation Strategies

Insider threat has become a serious information security issues within organizations. In this paper, we analyze the problem of insider threats with emphases on the Cloud computing platform. Security is one of the major anxieties when planning to adopt the Cloud. This paper will contribute towards the conception of mitigation strategies that can be relied on to solve the malicious insider threats. While Cloud computing relieves organizations from the burden of the data management and storage costs, security in general and the malicious insider threats in particular is the main concern in cloud environments. We will analyses the existing mitigation strategies to reduce malicious insiders threats in Cloud computing.