topic- wireless security in cloud computing

Wireless Security In Cloud computing

Alwa Sandhya Reddy

IST 8101

Master of Science in Information Systems Technology

Wilmington University

July 2018

Conclusion and summary

Cloud computing has transformed businesses and has helped to reduce the operational cost that companies incur yet at the same time it has increased efficiency. Even though cloud computing has appeared useful and has come in handy in production environments and in the corporate world; the technology has faced a lot of security issues and is still in its infancy level. There is a need to conduct more research on how to optimize its efficiency and security.

This Qualitative exploratory research sought to investigate a gap in previous research work with the aim of contributing to the general body of knowledge of the field (wireless security in cloud computing). This study employed the techniques of qualitative research. Qualitative research involves conducting an inquiry in a natural setting and uses both inductive and deductive approaches whose final piece is the reflexivity of the researcher, the voice of the participants, problem description and interpretation and a call for change or a contribution to the literature (O’reilly, & 2013). The study adopted the interpretive phenomenological method to examine the qualitative feature of practice rooted in banking practice. The interpretive phenomenological approach is a credible method that is critical in establishing truth during the process of data collection.

The study design for the research was naturalistic study. The naturalistic study is one where the researcher observes a phenomenon and carefully records the behavior especially in the phenomena's natural setting. In the study by Mattsson, Forsner, Castren & Arman (2013), observations were done at the banks. Field notes were also taken with the aim of observing the banking stakeholders, particularly the bankers to get an overview of their daily practice. A separate room at the workplace was also used to conduct a validating interview so as to get the meaning of the banking situation previously observed.

The characteristics of the study design, as shown above, describe a naturalistic study design. The survey aimed at discovering the actions of bankers when they are engaged in banking activities circumstances via big data, a control experiment was also done where the participants were not using big data analytics to do the same things to note the difference. The study thematic areas included: service delivery, risk management, data quality management, and performance.

This paper suggests that four areas are of notable importance with regard to policy standardization i.e Compliance: harmonization of regulatory and legal frameworks to be better suited to assist in the provision of high-level security, privacy, and trust in cloud computing. Accountability: this is concerned with the improvement of rules that enable the users to exercise improvement of models of service levels as their primary means of ensuring accountability in meeting privacy security and trust obligations. Governance: there is the need to ensure that operational risk control is enhanced by relevant bodies and that incident monitoring is done appropriately. Transparency: There is need to improve the manner in which levels of privacy, security and trust afforded to end users and cloud customers can be measured, discerned and managed including conducting research on how to adopt best practices with regard to security issues and automated means for customers to exercise rights as well as establishing guidelines for incidence response.

This paper recommends that there is the need to come up with an optimal combination of governance and service provision considering the existing costs, market context and legal environment as well as the uncertainties and complexities associated with these factors. There is also the need to take into consideration the interests of all the involved stakeholders to ensure that these optimal arrangements are successfully achieved while preserving the impact of cloud computing.

Future research

While previous work has identified a wide range of critical issues concerned with security within the cloud environments and many works in the recent past focusing on general issues concerning security and privacy of cloud environments have been brought to the limelight, this paper proposes the standardization of security policies as well users awareness as some of the ways of curbing the security issues within cloud environments. This paper, therefore, proposes that there should be a trusted cloud service provider working under the accepted codes of conduct and best practices as provided by the law. This paper provides critical information that policymakers and enterprises can use to streamline policies with best practices for optimum service delivery and outcomes. However, this research fails to give detailed information whether there is a return on investment in cloud computing owing to the information risk that comes with its usage. Future research should address this issue and set clarifications so that the corporate world can know how best to use this technological package