Does SaaS Backup Pass the Fitness-for-Purpose Test?

Roger Clarke

doi:10.1109/MCC.2015.121

Does SaaS Backup Pass the Fitness-for-Purpose Test?

Roger Clarke^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers have achieved dramatic take-up rates for their services. However, they are placing their businesses at risk through their inadequate attention to security issues. Nowhere is this more evident than in the area of backup and recovery. When assessed against users' needs for assured accessibility of the data that they entrust to the cloud, SaaS services are found to be untrustworthy, and very hard to work with.

Original language	English
Pages	58-63
Number of pages	6
Volume	2
No.	6
Specialist publication	IEEE Cloud Computing
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MCC.2015.121
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2015
Externally published	Yes

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