...Hongjiang Xu Purpose This paper aims to investigate what are the managerial measurements for cloud computing’s cybersecurity from the users’ perspective, and whether the users’ perceived importance is aligned with the actual performance. It also examines whether different user groups perceive...

... of security and privacy concerns and investigate whether assurance mechanisms decrease such concerns. Design/methodology/approach This study conducts a scenario-based survey with 694 mobile cloud computing (MCC) app users to understand their perceptions and behaviors. Findings This study finds...

... and methods in use (Feldman and Orlikowski, 2011). Cloud computing Practice Impact Rationale Information security risk assessment Lesson learned Cloud solutions have been firmly embedded into the fabric of many organizations. Research shows steady and remarkable growth in the implementation...

... and its advantages is still a critical issue for the conventional banking sectors in Germany. Cloud computing Information resources management Information security Information management Data transmission Finance Cloud migration IaaS Data security TAM TOE NIST defines cloud computing...

... hypotheses and conducts a survey to test the framework. Findings The results from both ordinary least square regression and structural equation modeling analyzes indicate that information technology complexity negatively and significantly affects users’ perception of the cloud computing providers...

... This paper presents in detail the requirements for GDPR compliance of cloud computing environments, presents the GDPR roles (data controller and data processor) in a cloud environment and discusses the applicability of GDPR compliance requirements for each cloud architecture (Infrastructure as a Service...

...Wafa Bouaynaya Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to a growing body of research on information systems security, by studying open source alternatives for cloud computing. Several questions have been raised about the reliability of these promising but ambiguous offers...

... Security Cloud computing Secret sharing Cloud storage has become a commodity technique, commonly used by companies for dynamically outsourcing their data storage onto third-party servers. Benefits include increased agility by self-service and pay-per-use potentially leading to decreased monetary...

...David Lewis Coss; Gurpreet Dhillon Purpose To effectively develop privacy policies and practices for cloud computing, organizations need to define a set of guiding privacy objectives that can be applied across their organization. It is argued that it is important to understand individuals’ privacy...

... concepts that need to be considered when designing privacy-aware systems. Although privacy is a common concern in distributed information systems, additional privacy issues arise because of the nature of cloud computing. The main advantages of cloud computing, like its ability to scale rapidly, store...