An exploratory analysis of the influence of information security on the adoption of cloud computing

Proceedings of 2013 8th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering: SoSE in Cloud Computing and Emerging Information Technology Applications, SoSE 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 165-170

  Opala, Omondi John ^a   Rahman, Syed M ^b,c  

^a CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

^c CAPELLA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cloud security and cloud compliance; Distributed computing; infrastructure as a service; software as a service

Indexed keywords

CLOUD SECURITIES; EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS; INFRASTRUCTURE-AS-A-SERVICE; IT INFRASTRUCTURES; LARGE ENTERPRISE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTSOURCED DATUM; SOFTWARE-AS-A-SERVICE;

CLOUD COMPUTING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DECISION MAKING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LINEAR REGRESSION; SECURITY OF DATA; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84883261691     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SYSoSE.2013.6575261     Document Type: Conference Paper

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