...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...

... be exclusively studied from the traditional ISRA perspective (Albakri et al., 2014 ; Rong et al., 2013). Moreover, there is a lack of reports on implementation and experimental results that focus on cloud risk assessment (Theoharidou et al., 2013). Cloud computing refers...

... of data in transmission and access to and from the cloud and scaling resources up and down. Despite a number of studies on the benefits, challenges and adoption of cloud computing, the IaaS rate still faces several critics, so it is important to address these challenges and identify the factors...

... 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...

... Usability Security Cloud computing Secret sharing The use of cryptography for securely storing data in the cloud is not straightforward, because of the requirements found in cloud environments. It is the increased agility and capability of dynamically sharing data with different stakeholders...

...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...

... to the nature of cloud computing apply, and therefore, privacy protection measures are still needed to be considered. 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...