Towards an Understanding of Cloud Computing Adoption in SMEs: The Role of Security and Privacy Factors

The advent of digital technologies such as cloud computing has provided enormous opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to digitalise their businesses. However, with increasing cloud computing adoption, the security and privacy threats to the SMEs are on the rise. By conducting...

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Published inInternational journal of cyber warfare and terrorism Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 1 - 13
Main Authors Salzman, Scott, Lokuge, Sachithra, Nagahawatta, Ruwan, Warren, Matthew
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hershey IGI Global 01.01.2024
Subjects
Adoption of innovations
Cloud computing
Compliance
Cybersecurity
Data integrity
Efficiency
Electronic warfare
Literature reviews
Privacy
Security
Small & medium sized enterprises-SME
Small business
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Summary:The advent of digital technologies such as cloud computing has provided enormous opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to digitalise their businesses. However, with increasing cloud computing adoption, the security and privacy threats to the SMEs are on the rise. By conducting an extensive review of literature, this paper examines and identifies the security factors that influence cloud computing adoption specifically by SMEs. The literature review focused on papers published in ten years related to the security requirements and associated cloud computing adoption factors by SMEs. The framework focused on understanding socio-technical factors that influence the intent to adopt cloud computing by SMEs. The findings attest to the impacts of key security and privacy-related factors (including cloud security standard, data privacy concerns, data security concerns, skilled personnel, technology readiness, perceived cloud security benefits, legal compliance and trust in cloud service providers) on SMEs' intent to adopt cloud computing.
ISSN:1947-3435
1947-3443
DOI:10.4018/IJCWT.343315