The document addresses security and privacy challenges in cloud computing, highlighting a research gap in existing literature that mainly focuses on technical and performance issues. It outlines the research questions, conceptual framework, and methodology, emphasizing the significance of the study for IT industry users, developers, and academic researchers in Sri Lanka. The findings aim to assist cloud service providers in identifying challenges and educating users on protection strategies.

1. Security & Privacy
Challenges in Cloud
Computing

2. CONTENT
• Research Gap
• Research Questions
• Conceptual Framework
• Operationalization Table
• Research Methodology
• Significance of the Research

3. RESEARCH GAP
•Existing research has only covered the technical,
Performance and trust Challenges in Cloud Computing
and therefore, this study have expanded the
Challenges to Security and Privacy Issues in Cloud
Computing.

4. RESEARCH QUESTION
• What are the Security and Privacy challenges in Cloud Computing ?
• How to affect Security and Privacy challenges on cloud computing ?

5. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
H1
H2
Cloud Computing
Security
challenges
Privacy
challenges

6. OPERATIONALIZATION TABLE
Concept/ Construct Dimension Indicators Sources
Cloud Computing
• Cloud Computing Users
Enrolment • Number of users involve
to Cloud computing
• [Balding08] Craig
Balding, "ITG2008
World Cloud
Computing Summit",
2008
• [Reese09] George
Reese, "Cloud
Application
Architectures",April
2009, O'Reilly Media
• Cloud computing
Challenges
• Types of Challenges
• Parties, who involve in
cloud computing
• Category of parties

7. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
• Population : Cloud Service Providers in Sri Lanka
• Sample : Main Cloud Service Provider in Sri Lanka
(DataCore Lanka (Pvt) Ltd)
• Instrument : Secondary Data

8. Significance of the Research
• This study will useful to different users and developers in IT Industry in Sri
Lanka.
• This study can be used by Cloud Computing developers in order to improve
or to expand their services.
• Academic peoples can use this research to base on their future researches.
• Cloud Computing services provider can use this study to identify challenges
in cloud computing, also users can use this study to educate themselves how
to protect that challenges.

9. ThankYou !