Cloud Computing Threats and Vulnerabilities University of Maryland University College Table of Contents I. Introduction: What is cloud computing and why is it important? II. What are Cloud Computing’s Threats and Vulnerabilities? III. Threat/Vulnerability Occurrence Likelihood‚ Risk Reduction and Customer Satisfaction A. “Abuse and Nefarious Use of the Cloud” / “Session Riding and Hijacking” B. “Insecure Interfaces and APIs” / “Virtual Machine (VM) Escape”.
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What business benefits do cloud computing services provide? What problems do they solve? Cloud computing provides many different business benefits to business that choose to use to the services. First benefit that the cloud computing offers is the ability to afford the service‚ cloud computing is very financially affordable for business. Using the service of cloud computing‚ business is able to save money‚ able to avoid taxing-in-house systems unnecessarily. Refer to the example from this
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The Future of Cloud Computing XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX: INF103 Professor XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX April 21‚ 2014 The Future of Cloud Computing – What Is It & What Does It Mean? The shift to cloud computing is a major change in the industry of computer technology. Cloud computing is a tool that allows a person to access software‚ server and storage resources over the Internet‚ in a self-service manner. Instead of having to buy‚ install‚ maintain and manage these resources on a
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Case Study 2: Cloud Computing CIS500: Information Systems Decision-Making 2012‚ December 2 How did Ericsson benefit from Amazon Web Services (AWS)? According to Amazon’s Web Service website‚ it gives users the option to run just about everything using their service applications. By incorporating cloud computing‚ users are able to cut variable costs to a more attractive scale for the business by eliminating costly administrative and hardware fees. Due to remote access‚ Ericsson was able to
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Introduction 1.1 Aim This report aims to investigate the mobile phone use of Melbournians. Demographically‚ this report will focus on Students aged between 12-30 years old. This report is for the Minister of Consumer Affairs and will provide supplementary information about this growing industry. 1.2 Background The mobile phone is one of the most beneficial tools in our modern society‚ not only for business adults but for the students. Mobile phones have become an integral part of our everyday
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we can apply the same analysis to a technology like Cloud computing. The opportunities and threats portion of the analysis are analyzing external forces that can have a positive or negative impact to the evolution of Cloud computing. Specifically‚ the opportunities portion will describe ways to expand Cloud computing while the threats will focus on what can prevent Cloud computing to expand. Strengths A key strength of Cloud computing is lower IT costs. Significant capital is spent every year
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The Pros and Cons of Cloud Computing A Tale of a Salesman that Convinced a CIO to Switch to Cloud Computing 1 – Introduction and Definition P.2 2 – Pros and Cons of Cloud Computing‚ from a CIO – Salesman Point of View P.4 3 – Conclusion P.8 4 – References P.9 1.1 Introduction “Cloud” computing is the fanciest buzzword in the computer industry‚ currently surpassing the last big term “web 2.0”. Every big player in the computer industry launched a cloud service
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Mobile Computing and Social Networking CIS 500: Information System for Decision Making February 24‚ 2013 Introduction Social media is playing a big role in the health care industry. A study compiled by Demi & Cooper Advertising and DC Interactive Group shows that more than 90% of people ages 18-24 said they would trust health information they found on social media channels. One in two adults uses their smart phone to look-up health information. Patients are also taking to the Interwebs
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I. Introduction 1. MARKET POTENTIAL ANALYSIS The Concept of market Potential It is defined as the maximum demand response possible for a given group of customers within a well-defined geographic area for a given product or service over a specified period of time under well-defined competitive environmental conditions. We will further split up this definition: 1. Market potential is the maximum demand response under certain assumptions (ultimate demand). 2. Relevant customer
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Security Risks in Cloud Computing University Writing Essentials / ENG 147 Security Risks in Cloud Computing With technology as advanced as it is today‚ most find that security in Cloud computing is more secure and better when in fact the risks are higher than ever before. What could be presumed safe‚ could in fact present a major vulnerability in the eyes of a hacker. When accessing the Cloud‚ users depend on the security‚ which in turn subjects them to security risks in privacy‚ security‚ and data
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