CHAPTER 18

RISKS IN CLOUD COMPUTING

18.1 Introduction

18.2 Risk Management

18.3 Cloud Impact

18.4 Enterprise Wide Risk Management

18.5 Types of Risks in Cloud Computing

18.1 INTRODUCTION

Cloud computing is recognized as the most widely used computing paradigm for the last few years. It is currently a welcome change for the information and communications technology industry by modifying the means by which software programs and hardware are trusted and purchased. Its success is due to the key capabilities such as: (i) all computing desires are suggested as a service and (ii) the proficiency in dynamically providing computational resources. As of now, there are mainly two kinds of cloud providers:

  1. Cloud Service Providers (CSP) or either SaaS or ...

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