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The Economic Case For Cloud Computing

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CLOUD COMPUTING SECURITY By Yoshita Jumili Lawrence Technology University INT7223 Enterprise System Security Summer 2015 Dr. Terrance E. Dillard Instructor Introduction The economic case for cloud computing is compelling and at the same time there are striking challenges in its security. The concepts of cloud computing security issues are fundamentally new and intractable. What appears new is only relative to traditional computing that has been practiced since several years. Many such security problems have been giving attention since the time-sharing era. Cloud computing providers have and can build datacenters as large due to their expertise in organizing and provisioning computational resources at as low cost as possible. …show more content…

A significant paradigm shift is represented by public cloud computing from conventional norms of an organizational data center to a de-parameterized infrastructure which opens gates for potential adversaries to use. Cloud computing should be approached carefully with any emerging information technology area with due consideration to the sensitivity of data. A good planning helps and ensures that the computing environment is secure to the most possible extant and is in compliance with all relevant policies of an organization and makes sure the privacy is maintained. To understand the public cloud computing environment that is being offered by the cloud providers. The responsibilities of an organization and the cloud providers vary depending on the service model. Any organization should understand and organize the process of consuming the cloud services and also keep an eye on the delineation responsibilities over the computing environment and implicate security and privacy. Assurances or certification and compliance review entity paid by the cloud providers to support security or privacy should be well verified time to time by organization through independent assessment. To warrant the cloud

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