ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF RISK RELATED TO USING CLOUD COMPUTING IN BUSINESS: EMPLOYEE’S PERCEPTION

With the recent advancement of the technology and its application to our daily business and social life; precisely the cloud computing system, however it has a risks that might lead to hesitation and lose of enthusiasm of using it. The main objective of this research is to find the risk factors, which may affect the business performance of the companies that use “Cloud Computing”, and understand the consequences and its managements. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first study in Iraq on risk analysis and managements in cloud computing. The objectives achieved by distributing a questionnaire to 30 private companies in Iraq which are using cloud computing to risk managements by interviewed the employees who were responsible on managing “Cloud Computing” in their companies. That leads to recognize the potentials risk, and how much impact we might make to take the right decision in order to manage the risk to help using “Cloud Computing” without fears.