The computer industry has thrived on technological advancement since its birth. The rising abuses of computers and increasing threat to personal privacy through Internet technologies have stimulated much interest in the technical safeguards for data. Scalable and elastic IT-enabled capabilities are provided as a service to external customers using Internet technologies is cloud computing. Security is becoming more and more important in all business processes and IT application areas. The rising need for secure business critical computing results from a number of economical, social and political trends: The increasing integration of applications and business processes horizontally and vertically in all business services, the ever growing number and variety of clients and mobile always-on network connections and applications to the Internet

Keywords: Security, Data Security, Protection, Access Controls, Cloud Computing, Firewall, Internet