IT Security Risk Management in the Context of Cloud Computing Toward
This work adds a new perspective to the stream of organizational IT security risk management literature, one that sheds light on the importance of IT security risk perceptions. Based on a large-scale empirical study of Cloud providers located in North Ame
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André Loske
IT Security Risk Management in the Context of Cloud Computing Towards an Understanding of the Key Role of Providers’ IT Security Risk Perceptions With a foreword by Prof. Dr. Peter Buxmann
André Loske Darmstadt, Germany Dissertation, TU Darmstadt, 2015 Hochschulkennziffer D17
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Foreword Cloud Computing is one of the most strongly growing types of IT outsourcing and companies, governments, and non-profit organizations alike are increasingly leveraging this emerging paradigm. For example, SAP recently announced a major strategy change and invests heavily in the expansion of its Cloud business. Most of the SAP applications will be readily available as a service in the near future. However, the acceptance of Cloud solutions by clients lags far behind the predictions of leading market analysts. In the last years, the promised technological and economic advantages of the Cloud were once too often accompanied by serious IT security incidents which not only jeopardized the reputation of the respective service providers but also daunted many clients for the long term. Considering the existence-threatening consequences of IT security incidents in the context of the Cloud, it could be expected that the service providers do everything in their power to mitigate these risks. Nonetheless, a closer look at the security whitepapers of well-established Cloud services in many cases reveals a lack of crucial IT security measures, which are, for example, defined as minimum IT security standards for service providers by the Federal Office for Information Security. Intrigued by t
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