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Migrating to Public Clouds – From a Security Perspective

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Given the growth of Cloud Computing in the recent years, the number of users adopting Cloud services is also increasing at a stupendous scale. Though the emergence of various service offering models and infrastructures in Cloud services widens the service options for the Cloud users, this also leaves the Cloud users in a state of chaos whilst choosing their appropriate Cloud services. To this end, defining policies for adopting Cloud services from the perspectives of both the individuals and organizations has become essential for choosing the right Cloud services. With this is mind, this chapter is aimed at uncovering the concerns incurred whilst migrating from private Cloud to public Cloud services. An important contribution of this chapter is the inferences, derived from a conducted survey amongst the Cloud users, which includes evaluating their satisfactory levels, requirements and desired improvements in their respective Cloud environments.

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  1. Department of Engineering and Technology, University of Derby, Derby, UK

    Thomas Holding, John Panneerselvam & Lu Liu

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    Shao Ying Zhu

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    Richard Hill

  3. University of Derby, Department of Computing and Mathematics, Derby, United Kingdom

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Holding, T., Panneerselvam, J., Liu, L. (2015). Migrating to Public Clouds – From a Security Perspective. In: Zhu, S., Hill, R., Trovati, M. (eds) Guide to Security Assurance for Cloud Computing. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25988-8_3

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