Information security management in cloud computing:a case study

Abstract. Organizations are quickly adopting cloud computing in their daily operations. As a result, spending’s on cloud security solutions are increasing in conjunction with security threats redirecting to the cloud. Information security is a constant race against evolving security threats and it also needs to advance in order to accommodate the cloud computing adaptation. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the topics and issues that are related to information security management in cloud computing environments. Related information security management issues include risk management, security technology selection, security investment decision-making, employees’ security policy compliance, security policy development, and security training. By interviewing three different types of actors (normal employees, IT security specialists, and security managers) in a large ICT-oriented company, this study attempts to get different viewpoints related with the introduced issues and provide suggestions on how to improve information security management in cloud computing environments. This study contributes to the community by attempting to give a holistic perspective on information security management in the specific setting of cloud computing. Results of the research illustrate how investment decisions directly affect all other covered topics that in turn have an effect on one another, forming effective information security

Security and Privacy Concerns for Australian SMEs Cloud Adoption

Cloud Computing has become increasingly important for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises because of its cost-effective benefits. However, the adoption of Cloud Computing over the recent years raised challenging issues with regard to privacy and security. In this study, we explored and presented the findings of the influence of privacy and security on Cloud adoption by SMEs. Based on a survey of SMEs across Australia, we analysed the data using structural equation modelling. We found that Cloud privacy and Cloud security are major concerns for SMEs to adopt Cloud computing. The study findings are useful for IT practitioners and regulatory bodies to understand how SMEs consider privacy and security issues for Cloud adoption

A Study On Data Security Issues In Public Cloud

Abstract: The cloud computing concept has been evolving for more than 40 years. Cloud computing is an on demand computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. The cloud computing services are delivered through software as service (SaaS), platform as service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as service (IaaS). Cloud Computing moves the application software and databases to the large data centers, where the management of the data and services are provided by cloud service providers. The common data security concerns are securing data in transit and at rest, access control and data separation. In this survey paper, we review the data in public cloud, identify and discuss the security risks associated with it and analyze its solution strategies

A comprehensive meta-analysis of cryptographic security mechanisms for cloud computing

The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.The concept of cloud computing offers measurable computational or information resources as a service over the Internet. The major motivation behind the cloud setup is economic benefits, because it assures the reduction in expenditure for operational and infrastructural purposes. To transform it into a reality there are some impediments and hurdles which are required to be tackled, most profound of which are security, privacy and reliability issues. As the user data is revealed to the cloud, it departs the protection-sphere of the data owner. However, this brings partly new security and privacy concerns. This work focuses on these issues related to various cloud services and deployment models by spotlighting their major challenges. While the classical cryptography is an ancient discipline, modern cryptography, which has been mostly developed in the last few decades, is the subject of study which needs to be implemented so as to ensure strong security and privacy mechanisms in today’s real-world scenarios. The technological solutions, short and long term research goals of the cloud security will be described and addressed using various classical cryptographic mechanisms as well as modern ones. This work explores the new directions in cloud computing security, while highlighting the correct selection of these fundamental technologies from cryptographic point of view

Big Data Services Security and Security challenges in cloud environment

This paper explores security issues of storage in the cloud and the methodologies that can be used to improve the security level. This study is concluded with a discussion of current problems and the future direction of cloud computing. Big data analysis can also be classified into memory level analysis, business intelligence (BI) level analysis, and massive level analysis. This research paper is based on cloud computing security and data storage issues that organizations face when they upload their data to the cloud in order to share it with their customers. Most of these issues are acknowledged in this paper, and there is also discussion of the various perspectives on cloud computing issues

Secured Uploading and Retrieval of Data Using Visual Cryptography Scheme

Cloud storage provides a convenient, massive, and scalable storage at low cost, but data security is a major issue that prevents users from storing ?les on the cloud. This paper focuses on security for the documents that are uploaded and stored on the cloud. However, it poses risks to end users unless the data is encrypted for security. This study addresses these issues by proposing Visual Cryptography Scheme (VCS) for securing the files. In order to prevent issues like breaches and malware attacks on cloud, this innovative scheme helps in high level security to safeguard the files that are stored on the clou

Identifying cloud security threats to strengthen cloud computing adoption framework

Cloud Computing allows firms to outsource their entire information technology (IT) process, allowing them to concentrate more on their core business to enhance their productivity and innovation in offering services to customers. It allows businesses to cut down heavy cost incurred over IT infrastructure without losing focus on customer needs. However, to a certain limit adopting Cloud computing has struggled to grow among many established and growing organizations due to several security and privacy related issues. Throughout the course of this study several interviews were conducted, with cloud developers and security experts, and the literature was reviewed. This study enabled us to understand, current and future, security and privacy challenges with cloud computing. The outcome of this study led to identification of total 18, current and future, security issues affecting several attributes of cloud computing