Cloud service certifications (CSCs) are proposed in practice as instruments to mitigate the
prevailing uncertainties about cloud computing, but research on their efficacy in business …

Cloud service certifications (CSCs) gain increasing attention in practice as a measure
against the prevailing uncertainties of cloud computing, but demand efforts for passing audit …

Cloud service certifications (CSCs) are assessed by practitioners to support strategic cloud
adoption decisions with the aim to reduce information asymmetries. Both businesses and …

IS literature has predominantly taken a black box perspective on IS certifications and studied
their diverse set of outcomes, such as signaling superior quality and increased customer …

Cloud computing by now has gained wide recognition in business and is becoming
increasingly important for consumers. However, consumers experience uncertainties, such …

Continuous service certification (CSC) is an innovative way to ensure ongoing security and
reliability of cloud services by using (automated) monitoring and auditing techniques. Yet …

The great diffusion of cloud computing applications and services in the last years has
brought new threats to security of information. 1 IT Certification and authorization …

Cloud certifications are a good means to assure users of high level of security and reliability
of certified cloud services. However, cloud environments are highly dynamic due to the …

In the last ten years cloud computing has developed from a buzz word to the new computing
paradigm on a global scale. Computing power or storage capacity can be bought and …

Continuous service certification (CSC) involves the consistently gathering and assessing
certification-relevant information about cloud service operations to validate whether they …