Because information and technology is the cornerstone for a wide array of businesses, keeping those resources protected and secure is a top priority. Moving to the cloud can alleviate some of the security overhead from organizations, but it also requires a closer look at the client/provider relationship. This association, and the mutual provisions and expectations, between entities is explicitly defined within the service level agreement (SLA). Therefore, it is important that the SLA includes considerations that will protect critical business data and processes while they are in the hands of a third party. The most important of these being detailed descriptions of the service provider's security, details on auditing and metrics capabilities, thorough separation of duties and responsibilities, and penalties for not complying with the security requirements (Greer, 2012).
First, a business must know the capabilities of the cloud service provider (CSP) in regard to security, privacy, and business continuity. I feel that this is the most important of the four points, due to it showing the proactive abilities of the cloud provider. It is in the best interest of the organization to pursue defensive measures, rather than react to problems that have occurred or are still occurring. These facts are especially true in the cloud model, due to the relinquishing of control to an outside entity. Within the SLA, a provider should provide documentation regarding their physical and virtual security mechanisms; the client would request specific services and features. Ideally, this information would include sections on premises security (such as locks and guards), surveillance systems, alarms, power/cooling/communications redundancy and failover, v...
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Security helps the organization meet its business objectives or mission by protecting its physical and financial resources, reputation, legal position, employees, and other tangible and intangible assets through the selection and application of appropriate safeguards. Businesses should establish roles and responsibilities of all personnel and staff members. However, a Chief Information Officer should be appointed to direct an organization’s day to day management of information assets. Supporting roles are performed by the service providers and include systems operations, whose personnel design and operate the computer systems. Each team member must be held accountable in ensuring all of the rules and policies are being followed, as well as, understanding their roles, responsibilities and functions. Organizations information processing systems are vulnerable to many threats that can inflict various types of damage that can result in significant losses (Harris, 2014). Losses can come from actions from trusted employees that defraud the system, outside hackers, or from careless data entry. The major threat to information protection is error and omissions that data entry personnel, users, system operators and programmers make. To better protect business information resources, organizations should conduct a risk analysis to see what
This essay discusses regulation that rules cloud provider to protect privacy of data citizens within country. This essay will describe about what cloud services and its wide range of service In the second section, it will explain more about the security threat of cloud services and going more specific into privacy issue. The next section, I will discuss about the extent of technical regulation that porposed from case given by taking model from exist country regulation. In the Fourth section, this essay will discuss about evaluation and another policy as alternative of the previous policy. Finally, this essay will be closed by suggestion and conclusion about what regulation that should be purposed regarding to protect privacy citizens’ data stored in cloud.
The healthcare industry has access to a patient’s personal health information, in electronic and paper form, and is responsible for protecting this information. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) establish requirements for the healthcare industry. The establishment and implementation of an effective information security plan is critical to meet these requirements and ensure this protection. There are however challenges and risks that must be addressed. Cloud computing can be defined as the use of computer resources without the expense of owing the hardware and software. Cloud computing is becoming more and more popular in major corporations as a way to gain use of specific programs, applications and even hardware by way of the Internet.
External information system services are computing outside of the traditional security authorization boundaries established by organizations for their information systems. The traditional authorization boundaries that are linked to physical space and control of assets, are being extended (both physically and logically) with the use of external services. “External services can be provided by entities within the organization but outside of the security authorization boundaries established for organizational information systems, entities outside of the organization either in the public sector (e.g., federal agencies) or private sector (e.g., commercial service providers), or some combination of the public and private sector options (Gallagher, 2015)”. External information system services can include the use of service oriented architectures (SOAs), cloud-based services (infrastructure, platform, software), or data center
It would be very difficult to ignore the potential benefits of cloud computing, but it also brings a number of new and worrying risks. Following are typical control requirements or opportunities that businesses may need to consider when considering a move to the cloud
With the booming of cloud, a increasing number of enterprises are considering transferring the business to cloud because the move seems to help the enterprises not only to enhance working efficiency but also to decrease operating cost. However, findings indicate that under current circumstance, the portability of enterprises based on cloud is limited (Armbrust et al., 2010). Comparing to the potential expenditure one enterprise may face, the benefits it gains from may appears less attractive. Evidences in aspect of costing, efficiency and security are showed and discussed to get a conclusion.
The major threat of the organization is securing its gigabytes of data from the prying eyes of unauthorized outsiders and insiders attempting to exceed their authority. ...
Cloud computing is a relatively new technology that allows data to be stored, distributed and manipulated with greater ease than ever. As described by Gurjar and Rathore (2013), the “Cloud is a large pool of easily usable and accessible virtualized resources. These resources can be dynamically reconfigured to adjust to a variable load, allowing also for an optimum resource utilization” (p. 1). By moving data, documents and media to the Cloud, the potential for business efficiency and productivity increases and anyone with internet can take advantage of the benefits. As with anything, it is important to understand the risks and benefits in order to weigh whether or not moving to the Cloud is the best move for the business. Some companies, like Lavu, an iPad based point of sale system, operate solely on the Cloud. Without Cloud computing capability, some organizations would not exist.
Further more, it is essential for organizations while outsourcing its information technology (IT) operations to keep review and monitor all rights acknowledged to third part service providers in order to secure important data and customer privacy. A beneficial and cost effective service provider is reliable which provides proper management procedures relative to security. Organizations should deem to outsource its operation rather than its responsibilities.
To cater the wide variety of users, cloud is offering three types of services. These services include Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) ( Mell & Grance, 2011). In IaaS users are offered the computing capabilities such as pr...
Discription: Services of cloud are used by both larger and smaller scale organizations.Cloud computing has huge advantages but it is a global phenomenon therefore it has some disadvantages. Both the Service providers and the consumers must work together to ensure safety and security of data on clouds. Customers of cloud services are in fear of data loss and privacy.This paper propose to use The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) release of a new governance, risk management, and compliance stack for cloud computing. The cloud security tools are available for free download, is meant to help organizations create public and private clouds that act accordingly with industry standards for accepted governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) best practices. The GRC stack has three components: a controls framework, a technical foundation and a questionnaire for assessing what the CSA (cloud security alliance) calls for platform-, infrastructure- and software-as-a-service
...in order to properly secure the restricted data contained within the system. The software development team carefully explains the danger of compromised data both in the form of a technologically proficient employee along with the potentially greater and more damaging theft of data perpetrated by online hackers. Financial loss due to inadequate data storage and security is also explained to the client. The goal of this explanation is the realization that an increased preliminary investment may ultimately be significantly less expensive than a breach of an insecure system. In the event the client is unable or unwilling to modify the structure of the system, the recommended course of action is for the software development team to decline implementation of the system with consideration to the consequent damage to the repute of the software development organization.
Our clients and other parties with whom we do business entrust the company with important information relating to their businesses. It is our policy that all information considered confidential will not be disclosed to external parties or to employees without a “need to know.” If an employee questions whether certain information is considered confidential, he/she should first check with his/her immediate supervisor.
Cloud computing facilitates sharing of computing and storage resources with the aim of reducing computing expenses in organizations. Moreover, cloud computing facilitates information sharing among individuals within a cloud. Despite being advantageous, data stored in a cloud is usually prone to hacking and other security issues. This paper addresses the various mitigation measures that organizations are using to ensure that data stored in the cloud is secure.
In an organization availability, confidentiality and integrity are the key components, which is suppose to guide information security policies that are established. Policies set will need to “operate in conjunction with the organizations established security policy” (Whitman & Mattord, 2012). This case study will detail the legal environment at an organization, such as laws, policies and regulations. This paper will also highlight how these factors impact the availability, confidentiality, and the integrity of the information and systems.