Certification Attainment - A Gizmo to Evaluate Provider's Trust: Trust Evaluation is Grounded on Provider's Attainment Status Concerning Recommended Certifications

The relevance and recompense offered by cloud services make it obligatory for researchers to address the issues faced by this paradigm. The two major issues faced by this fast growing and most rising technology of the last one and a half decades is trust and security. Although the literature has witnessed and practiced a lot of models that can address these issues, despite the efforts, a sharp increase can be seen in data leakage incidences and its leads to hamper trust of the consumers in the cloud services and service providers. In order to remove the obstacles that are hampering the growth of the technology. The authors have tried to work on the areas which are not yet explored to solve the trust problem which is an indirect outcome of security lapse instances. The idea is to utilize the power of certifications or implications of the following standards or working according to the guidelines mentioned. The objective of this research article is to analyze the service provider on these aspects and generate its trustworthiness.