The Impact of Existing South African Policies and Regulatory Laws on Cloud Computing : A Literature ReviewNetworks

摘要

Cloud computing promises good opportunities for economies around the world, as it can helpreduce capital expenditure and administration costs, and improve resource utilization. Howeverthere are challenges regarding the adoption of cloud computing, key amongst those are securityand privacy, reliability and liability, access and usage restriction. Some of these challenges leadto a need for cloud computing policy so that they can be addressed. The purpose of this paper istwofold. First is to discuss challenges that prompt a need for cloud computing policy. Secondly,is to look at South African ICT policies and regulatory laws in relation to the emergence ofcloud computing.Since this is literature review paper, the data was collected mainly through literature reviews.The findings reveals that indeed cloud computing raises policy challenges that needs to beaddressed by policy makers. A lack of policy that addresses cloud computing challenges cannegatively have an impact on areas such as security and privacy, competition, intellectualproperty and liability, consumer protection, cross border and juridical challenges.