Cloud Computing - Assessing the Risks

Discover the business benefits and risks of adopting Cloud services

Cloud Computing: Assessing the risks uses jargon-free language and relevant examples, analogies and diagrams to explain the key benefits and risks that come with adopting Cloud services.

Written by three internationally renowned experts, the book discusses the primary concerns of most businesses leaders – the security and risk elements of the Cloud. But security and risk are just two elements of Cloud Computing, and this book covers all the critical components of a successful Cloud programme, including compliance, risk, reliability, availability, areas of responsibility, Cloud computing borders, legalities, digital forensics and business continuity.

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The authors are careful to describe the challenges as well as the benefits of using Cloud services, giving the reader more realistic expectations of what a Cloud service can provide, and an understanding of how to successfully manage the risks and threats.

This book explains how you can make your business more flexible in order to seize opportunities offered by the Cloud and gives you an understanding of international data protection and privacy laws around Cloud computing.

Contents

1. Cloud Computing Explained;
2. How Cloud Computing Changes Security, Governance, Risk and Compliance;
3. Governance of Cloud Computing;
4. Cloud Computing Top Security Risks;
5. Assessing Security in the Cloud;
6. Cloud Computing Application Security;
7. Organisational Risks Associated with Cloud Computing;
8. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery in Cloud Computing;
9. Investigations and Forensics in the Cloud;
10. Cloud Computing Borders - National and International Deployment;
11. Evaluating Compliance in the Cloud;
12. Where Cloud Computing is Heading.