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Cloud Computing Risk Assessment: A Systematic Literature Review

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 276))

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Cloud computing security is a broad research domain with a large number of concerns, ranging from protecting hardware and platform technologies to protecting clouds data and resource access (through different end- user devices). Although the advantages of cloud computing are tremendous, the security and privacy concerns of cloud computing have always been the focus of numerous cloud customers and impediment to its widespread adaptation by businesses and organizations. The paper presents a systematic literature review in the field of cloud computing with a focus on risk assessment. This would help future research and cloud users/business organizations to have an overview of the risk factors in a cloud environment. And to proactively map their indigenous needs with this technology.

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  1. National University of Sciences & Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Rabia Latif, Haider Abbas & Qasim Ali

  2. Centre of Excellence in Information Assurance (COEIA), King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Haider Abbas

  3. Institut Mines-Télécom, Telecom Ecole de Management Information System Departement, Sophia-Antipolis, France

    Saïd Assar

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul University of Science & and Technology (SeoulTech), Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park

  2. SEECS, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Ivan Stojmenovic

  3. School of Information and Communication Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Chungbuk, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Min Choi

  4. Department of Languages and Informatics Systems, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

    Fatos Xhafa

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Latif, R., Abbas, H., Assar, S., Ali, Q. (2014). Cloud Computing Risk Assessment: A Systematic Literature Review. In: Park, J., Stojmenovic, I., Choi, M., Xhafa, F. (eds) Future Information Technology. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 276. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40861-8_42

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