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Exploring Critical Risks Associated with Enterprise Cloud Computing

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While cloud computing has become an increasingly hot topic in the industry, risks associated with the adoption of cloud services have also received growing attention from researchers and practitioners. This paper reports the results of a study that aimed to identify and explore potential risks that organisations may encounter when adopting cloud computing, as well as to assess and prioritise the identified risks. The study adopted a deductive research method based on a cross-sectional questionnaire survey. The questionnaire was distributed to a group of 295 carefully selected and highly experienced IT professionals, of which 39 (13.2 %) responses were collected and analysed. The research findings identified a set of 39 cloud computing risks, which concentrated around diverse operational, organisational, technical, and legal areas. It was identified that the most critical risks were caused by current legal and technical complexity and deficiencies associated with cloud computing, as well as by a lack of preparation and planning of user companies.

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  1. Information School, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, Sheffield, S1 4DP, UK

    Guo Chao Alex Peng & Arnab Dutta

  2. Management School, University of Sheffield, IWP Building, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK

    Alok Choudhary

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  1. Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Victor C.M. Leung

  2. School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

    Min Chen

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Peng, G.C.A., Dutta, A., Choudhary, A. (2014). Exploring Critical Risks Associated with Enterprise Cloud Computing. In: Leung, V., Chen, M. (eds) Cloud Computing. CloudComp 2013. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 133. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05506-0_13

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