Impact of coronavirus pandemic crisis on technologies and cloud computing applications

In light of the COVID-19 outbreak caused by the novel coronavirus, companies and institutions have instructed their employees to work from home as a precautionary measure to reduce the risk of contagion. Employees, however, have been exposed to different security risks because of working from home....

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Main Authors: Ziyad R. Alashhab, Mohammed Anbar, Manmeet Mahinderjit Singh, Yu-Beng Leau, Zaher Ali Al-Sai, Sami Abu Alhayja’a
Format: Article
Language:en
Published: Elsevier Inc 2020
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Online Access:https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/45162/1/FULLTEXT.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/45162/
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnlest.2020.100059
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Summary:In light of the COVID-19 outbreak caused by the novel coronavirus, companies and institutions have instructed their employees to work from home as a precautionary measure to reduce the risk of contagion. Employees, however, have been exposed to different security risks because of working from home. Moreover, the rapid global spread of COVID-19 has increased the volume of data generated from various sources. Working from home depends mainly on cloud computing (CC) applications that help employees to efficiently accomplish their tasks. The cloud computing environment (CCE) is an unsung hero in the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. It consists of the fast-paced practices for services that reflect the trend of rapidly deployable applications for maintaining data. Despite the increase in the use of CC applications, there is an ongoing research challenge in the domains of CCE concerning data, guaranteeing security, and the availability of CC applications. This paper, to the best of our knowledge, is the first paper that thoroughly explains the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on CCE. Additionally, this paper also highlights the security risks of working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.