Risk Management in Emirates: Cloud Computing Risks and Recommendations

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Executive Summary
Emirates has a well-known company I the aviation industry. In 1985, Emirates
established with two aircrafts, which were leased from International Airlines of Pakistan. Now a
day Emirates has become most famous and largest company of the world and they have 256
aircraft that travel between 152 destinations around the world.
This report will provides knowledge of cloud computing and it will also provide risk
assessment report of Emirates with the risk matrix. Recommendations will provide for emirates
in the later section of this report.
Cloud computing has become famous for different things, as it provides many facilities to
the host, such as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Service-as-a-Service (SaaS), and Platform-
as-a-Service (PaaS). This report will explain risks of cloud computing that can affect Emirates
business processes (Baun, Kunze, Nimis, & Tai, 2011).

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Table of Contents
Executive Summary.........................................................................................................................1
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Emirates Airlines Company.............................................................................................................3
EAC Organizational Structure.....................................................................................................4
Stakeholders of EAC....................................................................................................................5
The Nature of the Business..........................................................................................................5
(a) Risk Assessment for EAC....................................................................................................6
Risk Assessment Matrix..................................................................................................................7
(b) Threats and Vulnerabilities for EAC....................................................................................8
Recommendations............................................................................................................................9
Summary........................................................................................................................................10
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................11
References......................................................................................................................................12

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Introduction
Emirates airline has made an agreement for cloud computing services with International
Business Machine (IBM). It is for expending their IT infrastructure using cloud-computing
service to manage global business processes and operations. Different vendors, such as AWS,
Google, IBM, and Microsoft, provide cloud-computing services. IBM will implement data centre
for Emirates airlines that enables private cloud infrastructure, which is enable data applications
access to the employees regardless of geographical local and time (Bhagat, 2012).
Emirates Airlines Company is 100 percent owned by the Dubai Government. For agility
and productivity, Emirates transform their IT-infrastructure into cloud architecture. IT strategic
services are most important for the growth of the organization. Therefore, the management of
Emirates states that they adopt cloud services for achieving their goals ( Bodhani, 2018).
This report is a Risk Assessment Report that provides an overview of different risks in
the cloud computing services for the Emirates Airlines. It will provide Risk Matrix for the uses
of cloud based IT-infrastructure by Emirates airlines.
Recommendations are used for the avoidance of risks, in this report recommendations
will provide for the Emirates airlines to reduce upcoming risks from cloud computing
infrastructure in later section of this report.
Emirates Airlines Company
In context of security policies for Emirates Airline Company, a risk report is submitted
that is based on the risks, which is associated with cloud computing. In this report, as a
representative between the senior management, stakeholders, managers, and technologists,
technical risks are communicated to the management to enable security policies in an efficient
way (Blaisdell , 2015).
This report is having an objective that IT Risk Assessment will provide help to create
security policies for Emirates Airlines Company for use of cloud-computing infrastructure for
their IT-infrastructure. The report uncover internal and external threats and vulnerabilities that
changes availability, integrity, and confidentiality of data for the organization. Cloud security is