A System for Quantitative Evaluation of the Privacy in Cloud Computing

Abstract: Cloud Computing is a new model in the IT's world. The privacy protection is one of the key challenges that the cloud computing faces. The customers, in the cloud computing, depend on the cloud provider to manage their data. In addition, the cloud computing resources are sharing with multi customers and these resources are located in different regions that subject to different jurisdictions. All of these matters lead to many privacy risks. In this paper, we try to develop an initial quantitative evaluating system that aims to help the customers to know what the privacy's weaknesses on the cloud providers by evaluating whether the cloud provider meets the privacy related issues or not.; this will help them to make the decision