A Study on the Security Factors for Enterprises to Adopt Cloud Computing Environments

• Main Authors: Chih-Ling Chang, 張至伶
• Other Authors: Horng-Tw Liaw
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/90862437881368860760

碩士 === 世新大學 === 資訊管理學研究所(含碩專班) === 99 === Globally soaring price of the most materials have resulted in a substantial increase in operation costs of enterprises. The emerging cloud computing integrating technologies like virtualization, service management automation and standardization can bring considerable benefits, cost savings and improve acceptance. By leveraging the power of cloud computing, enterprises can solve problems of high information costs of operating the data center and managing the servers. Nonetheless, there are several items that must be carefully considered and assessed. Among them, information security is on the top of the list. Rapid change in information technology leads to continuous information security incidents every day. Enterprises start to pay more attention to information security. There is also a diversity of information security products on the market. Based on the ISO27001 standard and the interviews and questionnaires of information security experts, this thesis intends to find the factors affecting the current procedures or controls when an enterprise plans to build up cloud computing environment, and derives the information security assessment criteria through the hierarchical structure and Estimated on the weight, while to provide solutions for business reference, thereby allowing the companies into cloud computing environment, information security can reduce the risk of disaster events.