The Security Vulnerabilities of On-Demand And Sharing Economy

Daniel Tse; Hok Hin Yuen; Qiran He; Chaoya Wang; Jiheng Yu

doi:10.1145/3234781.3234787

The Security Vulnerabilities of On-Demand And Sharing Economy

Daniel Tse
, Hok Hin Yuen
, Qiran He
, Chaoya Wang
, Jiheng Yu

Department of Information Systems

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review

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Abstract

The cloud computing has been widely in on-demand-and-sharing service economy and has become a hotspot in recent years especially in the IT industry which really lead to some changes in human’s daily life. However, many users and researchers believed that the information security is the most significant challenge in cloud computing. Therefore, this paper aims to discover the threats and vulnerabilities of the cloud storage which is the most common application originating from the cloud computing. This research utilized a quantitative approach and all qualified respondents were asked to complete an online questionnaire. The result shows that (1) Data loss and leakage is the biggest threat in using cloud storage application (2) Abuse use of cloud computational resources is the most severe impact in cloud storage application (3) Respondents with different backgrounds have the different perspectives towards the cloud service (4) The countermeasures to minimize the security vulnerability are flexibility in choosing the protective measures, strengthen the infrastructure, improve the password authentication and strengthen the authorization.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICEEG 2018: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on E-commerce, E-Business and E-Government
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	47-53
ISBN (Print)	9781450364904
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3234781.3234787
Publication status	Published - Jun 2018
Event	2018 2nd International Conference on E-commerce, E-Business and E-Government (ICEEG 2018) and 2018 5th International Conference on Innovations in Business and Management (ICIBM 2018) - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China Duration: 13 Jun 2018 → 15 Jun 2018 http://www.iceeg.org/iceeg2018.html http://www.iceeg.org/history/2018%20Hong%20Kong%20Program.pdf

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Volume	Part F139753

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Conference	2018 2nd International Conference on E-commerce, E-Business and E-Government (ICEEG 2018) and 2018 5th International Conference on Innovations in Business and Management (ICIBM 2018)
Place	Hong Kong, China
Period	13/06/18 → 15/06/18
Internet address	http://www.iceeg.org/iceeg2018.html http://www.iceeg.org/history/2018%20Hong%20Kong%20Program.pdf

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Research Keywords

Cloud computing
Cloud storage application
On-demand-and-sharing economy
Threats
Vulnerabilities

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Tse, D., Yuen, H. H., He, Q., Wang, C., & Yu, J. (2018). The Security Vulnerabilities of On-Demand And Sharing Economy. In ICEEG 2018: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on E-commerce, E-Business and E-Government (pp. 47-53). (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. Part F139753). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3234781.3234787

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The Security Vulnerabilities of On-Demand And Sharing Economy. / Tse, Daniel; Yuen, Hok Hin; He, Qiran et al.
ICEEG 2018: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on E-commerce, E-Business and E-Government. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. p. 47-53 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. Part F139753).

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