Abstract:
The movement towards cloud computing platform has gained momentum over the past few years. It has been accepted by the majority of organisations worldwide, since the cloud offers a cost-effective way to manage, control and promote efficiency in project management operations. Customers gain numerous services from the cloud such as wide-ranging network access and on-demand services. The increasing dependency on cloud projects globally makes its use critical and if not properly managed, can affect millions of users at once. Despite the numerous advantages related to cloud computing projects, there are still apprehensions from the part of many organisations as regards to the security issues. Migrating to cloud computing presents issues for example access control and security vulnerabilities in terms of data security. The existing traditional risk management frameworks showed shortcomings towards the increasing complexity of the cloud environment. A survey was carried out targeted towards the IT professionals working in the cloud environment to extract the security issues. From the data gathered, a risk management framework was proposed with enhanced features from existing ones. The proposed framework was then evaluated by security experts at two IT companies where results proved to be quite convincing. This would help project managers to have a safer and more robust way to minimise risks associated with the cloud.
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