Will the cloud make the citizen more vulnerable? Risk and vulnerability assessment in times of cloud computing

Through digital traces that are left behind citizens are more and more exposing their personal data, digital identities to third parties in a conscious or mostly unconscious way. The latter is particularly the case for a variety of cloud computing applications implicitly used by a default citizen. To interact in a digital world and to give away personalized information opens the door for several hazards that may occur – deliberately or not. Consequently a citizen becomes vulnerable in various dimensions. Current research tries to re-apply well-known risk analysis strategies within the new context and in particular to cloud-computing scenarios. Final aim would be to identify individual risks in a qualitative and quantitative manner.

SCHEER Stefan;  KOUNELIS Ioannis;  LOESCHNER Jan; 

2013-05-16

SciTePress – Science and Technology Publications

JRC70616

978-989-8565-05-1,   

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC70616,