Information System Audit: Cloud Computing Security and Challenges

The Cloud Computing paradigm is getting popular deliberately and is being adopted in modern organizations because of its lower cost, scalability and high availability. This moves control of data from the owner to the cloud service provider and thus security and data privacy of customer or owner becomes a challenge. Cloud is a new concept and as a result of which the experience of providers in this field might not be enough to complement security. Security, being inconsistent and not robust, will have low credibility on the benefit that features of cloud computing has to offer. This research is done using exploratory method and presents an explanatory review on Information System (IS) Audit on cloud computing and security issues and prescribes a framework that can be used for Cloud Computing and Security. This research proposes an audit model for cloud computing. Keywords— Information System Audit, Cloud Computing, Security, Information System, Cloud reliability and performance