A Survey on Fog Computing: Services, Data and Security

Abstract

Cloud computing can be used as a delivery platform which is a promising way for storing user data and provides a secure access to personal and business information. It involves prevention form risks like data theft and various other attacks. Cyber criminals can access the documents which can results in misuse of data and also interpretation of highly confidential data for illegal purposes. For securing user data from cyber attacks a new paradigm called fog computing can be used. This technique can monitor the user activity to identify the legitimacy and prevent from any unauthorised user access. Fog computing is a computing technique that extends cloud computing to the edge by providing Security in the cloud environment.. In fog computing , new security and privacy challenges are to be faced that are inherited from cloud computing. Mainly fog computing is used to reduce the burden on cloud by gathering workloads, services, applications and huge data to near network edge. In this paper we have discussed this paradigm for preventing misuse of user data and securing information, challenges and corresponding solutions in a brief manner.