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Guideline for assessing risks arising from adoption of a cloud service / Guideline for assessing security risks arising from adoption of a cloud platform

This thesis focuses on assessment of IT risks related to company's adoption of a cloud ser-vice. The goal of the thesis is to identify generally applicable set of IT risks, which will serve as a basis for the proposed risk assessment guideline. The work is organized as follows: Introduction and literature review is presented in the first chapter. The author provides theoretical background supporting better understand-ing of the topic in the Chapter two, where concept of the cloud computing and IT risk are described. A qualitative questionnaire is introduced and results of the participants' re-sponses are depicted in the third chapter. Following chapter provides a risks categoriza-tion representing a base for the proposed cloud oriented IT risk assessment guideline. Subsequently, validation of the guideline in form of its practical application on a company undergoing the decision-making process towards cloud solution is summarized in the Chapter five. Second last chapter describes standards and certifications in an area of coud information security. Finally, Chapter seven summarizes and concludes the findings outlining opportunities for future work and possible improvements in this area.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:193938
Date January 2014
CreatorsTomčová, Zuzana
ContributorsBruckner, Tomáš, Vagner, Vlastimil
PublisherVysoká škola ekonomická v Praze
Source SetsCzech ETDs
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess

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