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Cloud Environment Controls Assessment Framework

Cloud Environment Controls Assessment Framework

Bharat Shah
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 26
ISBN13: 9781466625365|ISBN10: 1466625368|EISBN13: 9781466625372
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2536-5.ch002
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Shah, Bharat. "Cloud Environment Controls Assessment Framework." Software Testing in the Cloud: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline, edited by Scott Tilley and Tauhida Parveen, IGI Global, 2013, pp. 28-53. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2536-5.ch002

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Shah, B. (2013). Cloud Environment Controls Assessment Framework. In S. Tilley & T. Parveen (Eds.), Software Testing in the Cloud: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline (pp. 28-53). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2536-5.ch002

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Shah, Bharat. "Cloud Environment Controls Assessment Framework." In Software Testing in the Cloud: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline, edited by Scott Tilley and Tauhida Parveen, 28-53. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2536-5.ch002

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Abstract

Recent years have seen the rapid growth of on-demand, flexible, low-cost cloud-based information technology services. Government and business organizations around the world have started transforming their traditional in-house data center environments to cloud-based outsourced data centers. This transformation is opening doors to new risks given that the cloud computing delivery models, related services, and technologies are still maturing and evolving. Before deployment, organizations must implement cloud environment assessment methodologies to comply with the applicable standards and regulations. They must evaluate the environment’s quality attributes of Internet connectivity, user access control, privacy and confidentiality, asset protection, multiple platforms locality, availability, reliability, performance, and scalability. The purpose of this chapter is to assist organizations that are considering providing and consuming cloud-based services in developing an assessment plan specific to organizational policies, strategies and their business and applicable legal and regulatory requirements; and assessing the cloud environment controls for infrastructure, platform, and software services.

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