Investigating the Security Factors in Cloud Computing Adoption: Towards Developing an Integrated Framework

Abstract

There are several benefits of using cloud computing in organizations and government agencies such as cost saving and flexibility in getting resources. Cloud computing plays a significant changing in organizations since it allows the users to access the service anytime and everywhere via networks, with paying for using only. In developing countries, such as Saudi Arabia, the cloud computing is still in its early time not widely adopted, compared to countries in the west. In order to promote the adoption of cloud computing, it is important to recognize an important and specific issue related to cloud computing is the potential and perceived security factors that posed by implementing the technology. Hence, the aim of this study is to investigate the security factors that influence organization and government agencies to adopt cloud computing in a Saudi Arabia context. This paper proposed a framework identifies the key factors for the successful adoption of cloud computing, focused on risks, social and security benefits when implementing security in the cloud services. The proposed framework is involving of three categories, social factors category, cloud security risks category and perceived cloud security benefits. The finding showed that all the proposed factors in the framework were statistically significant, except one factors under perceived cloud security benefits were not statically significant.