A Taxonomic Perspective on Certification Schemes: Development of a Taxonomy for Cloud Service Certification Criteria
Title | A Taxonomic Perspective on Certification Schemes: Development of a Taxonomy for Cloud Service Certification Criteria |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2014 |
Authors | Schneider, S., Lansing, J., Fangjian Gao, Sunyaev, A. |
Conference Name | System Sciences (HICSS), 2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on |
Date Published | Jan |
Keywords | audit process, Business, certification, certification schemes, certifiers, cloud computing, cloud computing standards, cloud providers, cloud service certification criteria, CSC design, CSC initiatives, Interviews, security, Standards, structural characteristics, taxonomic perspective, Taxonomy |
Abstract | Numerous cloud service certifications (CSCs) are emerging in practice. However, in their striving to establish the market standard, CSC initiatives proceed independently, resulting in a disparate collection of CSCs that are predominantly proprietary, based on various standards, and differ in terms of scope, audit process, and underlying certification schemes. Although literature suggests that a certification's design influences its effectiveness, research on CSC design is lacking and there are no commonly agreed structural characteristics of CSCs. Informed by data from 13 expert interviews and 7 cloud computing standards, this paper delineates and structures CSC knowledge by developing a taxonomy for criteria to be assessed in a CSC. The taxonomy consists of 6 dimensions with 28 subordinate characteristics and classifies 328 criteria, thereby building foundations for future research to systematically develop and investigate the efficacy of CSC designs as well as providing a knowledge base for certifiers, cloud providers, and users. |
DOI | 10.1109/HICSS.2014.614 |
Citation Key | 6759217 |