Cloud Computing Data Security: Stakeholders, Legal Resources and Proposed Solutions

PROFESSIONAL
COMPUTING PRACTICE
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
BACKGROUND ANALYSIS.........................................................................................................3
The relevant facts of the ethical issue-.........................................................................................3
Identification of the stakeholders-...............................................................................................3
The duties and obligations of stakeholders-................................................................................4
LEGAL RESOURCE AVAILABLE IN AUSTRALIA..................................................................4
Stakeholder legally responsible for negative effects of ethical issue-.........................................4
Involvement of stakeholder for ensuring no harm is caused for using the technology-..............5
Proposed solution.........................................................................................................................6
Case study....................................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
The professional computing practice can be defined as the course which involves the
computing ethics, laws as well as the employability. The main aim of this course is for the
computing students who previously has not studies the business principles. This course enables
the students to get the professional graduation for their career path (Krishnamurthi and Fisler,
2019). The main ethical issue with the cloud computing is the data security which includes the
account hijacking as this is one of the most serious security issues among the businesses. This
report will discuss the stakeholders which will be impacted within the ethical issues as well as
the duties and obligations of these stakeholders. Along with this, the legal laws which are made
in Australia related to data security will be illustrated and the solutions will be proposed for the
companies to overcome these. Further, the case study will be formulated of the situation
regarding the ethical issue of cloud computing.
BACKGROUND ANALYSIS
The relevant facts of the ethical issue-
Cloud computing is basically the type of the technology which enables the effective
running of the remote services on the internet for managing, access as well as for storing the data
on the servers. The companies are facing lot of the ethical issue and among them one of the main
and serious ethical issue is security issue (Helo and et.al., 2021). There are various security
issues within the cloud computing are such as of the data loss, interfering of the hackers as well
as in secured API’s, account Hijacking as well as changing of the service providers.
Identification of the stakeholders-
There are various stakeholders which are not involved in the cloud computing such as-
Cloud user or consumer (CU), Cloud service providers (CSP), Cloud Auditor, Cloud broker are
the main stakeholders which will be affected if any of the ethical issues occurs within the cloud
computing (Shetty and Panda, 2021). It has been identified that Cloud user or the consumer is the
highly affected stakeholders if the ethical issues are occurred within the organization. The cloud
computing is having much scalability which enable the companies or the businesses to grow
effectively. When the companies are expanding, companies will be able to increase the
infrastructure as well as the facilities without the need of the servers as well as any other
additional capacity of the storage.
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There are various challenges which the stakeholders are facing such as defining the architecture
of the enterprise, selection of the suitable service as well as the providers, extension of the risk
management as well as engagement with the users and the IT people.
The duties and obligations of stakeholders-
The stakeholders of the cloud computing has been identified above and these have many
numbers of the duties as well as the obligations involved within their work. These are as follows-
Cloud user: These are the end users who are involved in utilizing the services which are
provided by the cloud service providers. The pricing policy of the cloud providers is non-
negotiable and some cloud consumers are able to negotiate for better contracts.
Cloud service providers : The main purpose of the cloud service providers is to deliver the
cloud services to the cloud consumers or the end users. This basically offers the number of the
components of the cloud computing to the consumers as they purchase various kinds of the cloud
services from these service providers (Alaloul and et.al., 2020). The services are such as IaaS
Providers, SaaS providers and many more.
Cloud Auditor: This is the individual which conducts the assessment of the cloud services, its
security, performance as well as the overall information system operations of the cloud
implementations. The major roles of the cloud auditor are such as security audit, privacy impact
audit and performance audit.
Cloud broker: The cloud broker provides the services which enable the flexibility as well as the
opportunistic and positive choices to the companies. The major services which are basically
offered are such as service intermediation, service aggregation and service arbitrage.
LEGAL RESOURCE AVAILABLE IN AUSTRALIA
Stakeholder legally responsible for negative effects of ethical issue-
The cloud computing security issues is highly impacting the customers as well as the
businesses. It has been identified that the any of the issues arises in the cloud computing other
than the security issues, the cloud customer is legally accountable for this. The identity as well as
the overall access management is considered as one of the main responsibility of the cloud
consumer and due to this, they are legally accountable for such ethical issues within the cloud
computing (Ramchand, Baruwal Chhetri and Kowalczyk, 2021). They are highly responsible for
ensuring about the security of the endpoints which are used for accessing the overall cloud