Question

Discuss three challenges faced when auditing a cloud environment. (200-300 words)

Answer 1

Challenges faced by an auditing of cloud environment

1.first challenges while auditing is to check for the transparency of data to the CSP users as it is one of the most difficult task in the cloud computing environment as the data is widely distributed and different companies have different standards to deal with data.

2. Second challenge check for the encryption of the data in the cloud environment because of the fact different cloud environment have different requirements and different encryption types so it is a very difficult task for the auditing team to describe whether the encryption is up to the standard or not.

3. Third challenge is regarding the domain of the cloud environment as mentioned above different domains have different kind of requirement from the cloud environment so auditing should be based on the defined domain and this is a difficult task because of the fact that different domains are different requirement and it is very difficult to gather and analyse the requirement of different domain and then audit to the cloud environment.