Quantifying quantitative correlation of provider selection influences cloud security

Abstract

The cloud computing has been able to help users to access the data easily and effectively. However, cloud security is highly emphasized to cloud users to ensure data is securely stored. The cloud security can be handled well by chosen trusted cloud service provider in getting high impact on the cloud security. The relationship between cloud security with the provider selection is much needed to ensure the extent to which data is securely stored in a cloud. Therefore, in this paper the quantitative method was conducted to measure the correlation between the selected the right cloud service provider influence the cloud security. Thus, knowledgeable person in having the experiences in using the cloud service was taking from two institution of higher learning (IHL) as a respondent. In addition, variability and normality data analysis was firstly conducted to obtain the consistency of the data. Then, the correlation between cloud security factor and provider selection factor was conducted using spearman correlation matrix and scatter graph in identifying the closely and significant the value in influencing between the factors. Thus, the correlation relationship analysis result shown the selected the right cloud provider’s give higher impact to cloud security.