Research Area: Cloud Security
Cloud computing is expanding in reach, with its utility-based features and enhanced agility. Still, there is a big concern about the privacy and security of the data. Because of these concerns, third-party cloud users are employing the cloud only for less sensitive data, and the advantage of cloud computing is not fully harnessed. In order to ensure the privacy and security of data, proper compliance and regulatory standards become very important for the cloud domain. Although a number of such standards exist for the traditional computing, they must be modified for their wider adoption to the cloud platforms. This chapter considers the worldwide available standards in the technical and non-technical categories for wider coverage of the cloud platforms. In the technical category, security standards presently followed by cloud computing have been discussed, while in the non-technical category, privacy and accounting standards like HIPPA, SAS 70, GAPP, etc. have been considered.
Keywords:
Compliance
Regulatory
Standards
Cloud Computing
Author(s) Name: Jitendra Singh and Vikas Kumar
Journal name: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Business Convergence, Computing, and Legality
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Publisher name: IGI Global
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4209-6.ch006
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