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تميز دراسي و بحثي
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البحوث المنشورة
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البحث (1):
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فصل في
كتاب
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عنوان البحث:
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Book chapter: Threat taxonomy for cloud of thin
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تاريخ النشر:
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13/11/2017
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ملخص البحث:
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In the
last few years, the cloud computing paradigm experienced a considerable
growth, making it the de-facto technology fuelling almost all major online
services. At the same time, the concept of Internet of Things has started to
gain mainstream traction with the promise to usher a new era of pervasive
sensing using a weave of numerous inter-connected IoT devices. Such IoT
devices can generate an enormous amount of data which becomes increasingly
difficult to process using the limited computational and storage capabilities
of these devices. To tackle this problem, a notion of a novel technology
called Cloud of Things is emerging.. However, to harness the full potential
of this new paradigm, different security and privacy issues need to be
properly analysed. The first step for carrying out such an analysis is to
define a well-constructed threat model. In this chapter, we present a
comprehensive threat model which is then utilised to create a first-ever
threat taxonomy for Cloud of Things. This taxonomy outlines different
security and privacy threats faced by this nascent technology and can be used
as the basis for further research on security and privacy in Cloud of Things.
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البحث (2):
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عنوان البحث:
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An
exploratory study for investigating the critical success factors for cloud
migration in the Saudi Arabian higher education contex
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تاريخ النشر:
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01/05/2017
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Saudi
universities have at their disposal a huge number of low cost IT resources to
aid in teaching, research and learning. By migrating to cloud services, Saudi
universities will be moving data and programs from local servers to the
internet, thereby providing users with the ability to access and share
information at any time from multiple devices. The migration to cloud-based
IT resources is not yet widespread in Saudi universities due to several
challenges including security, legal policies and implementation. At present,
there is lack of research and guidance for Saudi universities on how to
overcome these challenges and how contextual factors can influence the
successful migration to the educational clouds.
This
research presents a framework for the successful migration to cloud
technology in the Saudi Arabian universities. In this research, a set of key
critical success factors (CSFs) were identified by synthesizing components
from studies concerned with the migration of cloud for higher education and
factors identified from the successful implementation of WBL (Web Based
Learning) and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) on higher education in Saudi
Arabia. Based on this knowledge, the proposed framework was evaluated via
expert review and a survey by IT specialists from the Saudi universities. The
initial CSFs were updated based on the expert reviews and the results were
analysed. Based on the findings at this stage, additional CSFs were added to
the framework as suggested by the experts. Subsequently, in order to confirm
the reviewed CSFs, additional investigation via a structured online
questionnaire was conducted and the outcome was analysed via one-sample
t-test with the data integrity analysed via Cronbach’s alpha. The outcome
indicated the majority of CSFs to be statistically significant except the
Physical Location CSF. Potential future study and contributions are
discussed.
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البحث (3):
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عنوان البحث:
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A
Framework for Critical Security Factors that Influence the Decision of Cloud
Adoption by Saudi Government Agencies
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تاريخ النشر:
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02/05/2017
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— Cloud
computing technologies can play an essential role in public organisations and
companies while it reduces the cost of using information technology services.
It allows users to access the service anytime and anywhere, with paying for
what they use. In developing countries, such as Saudi Arabia, the cloud
computing is still not extensively adopted, compared to countries in the
west. In order to encourage the adoption of cloud services, it is
considerable to understand an important and particular complications
regarding to cloud computing is the potential and perceived security risks
and benefits posed by implementing such technology.
This
paper investigates the critical security factors that influence the decision
to adopt cloud computing by Saudi government agencies. A framework was
proposed for three categories, Social Factors category, Cloud Security Risks
Category and Perceived Cloud Security Benefits that includes well-known cloud
security features. The framework factors were identified by critically
reviewing studies found in the literature together with factors from the
industrial standards within the context of Saudi Arabia. An experiment study
was conducted in five government agencies in Saudi Arabia by interview and
questionnaire with experts in order to improve and confirm the framework. All
the factors in the proposed framework were found to be statistically
significant. An additional factor identified was Failure of client side
encryption. Moreover, they suggested including this factor as a potential
risk under Security Risk Factors Category. The initial framework was updated
based on the expert reviews and questionnaires. The results were analysed via
one-sample t-test with the data integrity analysed via Cronbach’s alpha. The
outcome indicated the majority of cloud security adoption framework
categories were statistically significant. Potential future study directions
and contributions are discussed.
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البحث (4):
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عنوان البحث:
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Critical Success Factors for Cloud Migration in Higher Education
Institutions: A Conceptual Framework
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تاريخ النشر:
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31/03/2017
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ملخص البحث:
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In the
last few years, the cloud-computing paradigm experienced a considerable
growth, making it the de-facto technology fuelling almost all major online
services. Nowadays, Universities have become more reliant on Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) to provide educational services for their
stakeholders. While most of the Universities in Europe and North America has
harnessed the capabilities of cloud services to provide large scale flexibly
electronic educational services. In Saudi Arabia, Most of the Universities
are start-ups with limited IT Staff and amateur ICT infrastructure.
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البحث (5):
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عنوان البحث:
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Investigating
the Security Factors in Cloud Computing Adoption: Towards
Developing
an Integrated Framework
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تاريخ النشر:
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01/06/2017
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ملخص البحث:
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There
are several benefits of using cloud computing in organizations and government
agencies such as cost saving and flexibility in getting resources. Cloud
computing plays a significant changing in organizations since it allows the
users to access the service anytime and everywhere via networks, with paying
for using only. In developing countries, such as Saudi Arabia, the cloud
computing is still in its early time not widely adopted, compared to
countries in the west. In order to promote the adoption of cloud computing,
it is important to recognize an important and specific issue related to cloud
computing is the potential and perceived security factors that posed by
implementing the technology. Hence, the aim of this study is to investigate the
security factors that influence organization and government agencies to adopt
cloud computing in a Saudi Arabia context.
This
paper proposed a framework identifies the key factors for the successful
adoption of cloud computing, focused on risks, social and security benefits
when implementing security in the cloud services. The proposed framework is
involving of three categories, social factors category, cloud security risks
category and perceived cloud security benefits. The finding showed that all
the proposed factors in the framework were statistically significant, except
one factors under perceived cloud security benefits were not statically
significant.
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المؤتمرات العلمية:
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المؤتمر (1):
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عنوان المؤتمر:
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Proceedings
of the 2nd International Workshop on Emerging Software as a Service and
Analytics / Closer, ISBN:
978-989-758-110-6
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تاريخ الإنعقاد:
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22/05/2015
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مكان الإنعقاد:
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Lisbon, Portugal
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عنوان المشاركة:
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An Overview of Cloud Services
Adoption Challenges in Higher Education Institutions
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طبيعة المشاركة:
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Conference
Paper
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رابط المشاركة:
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here
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ملخص المشاركة:
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Information
Technology (IT) plays an important role in enabling education services being
delivered to users. Most education online services in universities have been
run on the cloud to provide services to support students, lecturers,
researchers and administration staff. These are enabled with the emergence of
cloud computing in the world of IT. Cloud computing offers on demand
Internet-based computing services. This paper presents an overview of cloud
computing adoption in higher education, mainly tertiary institutions and
universities. The focus of the paper is the challenges of cloud computing in
higher education. It introduces the background to cloud computing and reviews
research on adoption challenges in higher education institutions. These
challenges are important as they provide an overview of the adoption of cloud
in higher education. The authors proposed an integrated reference model based
on the challenges in the literature integrated with TAM model to investigate
the factors influence the users’ attitudes and behaviours toward using cloud
education services in universities ICT provision.
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المؤتمر (2):
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عنوان المؤتمر:
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9th Saudi
Students’ conference
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تاريخ الإنعقاد:
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13/02/2016
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مكان الإنعقاد:
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London, UK
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عنوان المشاركة:
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A
Framewok for cloud migration in Saudi Arabia Higher Education
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طبيعة المشاركة:
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Poster
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ملخص المشاركة:
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Saudi
Universities have at their disposal a huge number of low cost IT resources to
aid in teaching, research and learning due to Cloud computing emergence,
which delivers substantial benefits in the form of rich education content,
increased efficiency, and agility that can be used to transform higher
education in Saudi Universities. By adopting cloud services, Saudi
Universities will be moving data and programs from local servers to the
Internet, thereby providing users with the ability to access and share
information at any time, from multiple devices (Sultan 2010; Alshwaier 2012). Also, procuring IT resources like
infrastructure, applications, and platforms, via the Internet will be
cost-effective, easy and fast. This will promote innovation in the
Universities, as the main barrier of cost will be removed. The implementation
of cloud based IT resources is not yet widespread in Saudi universities due
to several challenges including security, legal policies and implementation(Alshwaier 2012). According to literature reviewed, there is
lack of research and guidance for Saudi Universities on how to overcome these
challenges and how to migrate to the cloud ICT Paradigm (Alshetwi 2014).
This
poster proposes a framework for the successful implementation of cloud
technology in Saudi Arabia Universities. The key success factors were
identified by combining components from studies concerned with the
implementation of cloud for higher education and factors identified from the
success implementation of WBL (web based Learning) and ERP implementation
success factors in literature review on higher education in Saudi Arabia. The
research methodology will be based on the triangulation method as illustrated
by (Denzin 1970). The triangulation method is divided into
three steps; the first step is the literature review that is already done,
the second step is the qualitative expert interviews to review the proposed
framework and the third step is the quantitative survey to confirm the
reviewed framework by the IT experts. In the future, an expert review and a
survey in Saudi universities will be conducted to confirm the factors of this
framework.
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المؤتمر (3):
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عنوان المؤتمر:
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2016 International
Conference on Information Society (i-Society)
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تاريخ الإنعقاد:
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10/10/2016
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مكان الإنعقاد:
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Dublin, Ireland
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عنوان المشاركة:
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Towards a framework to enable the migration process to
educational clouds in Saudi higher education
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طبيعة المشاركة:
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Conference Paper
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رابط البحث المنشور:
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Here
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ملخص المشاركة:
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Nowadays,
Universities have become more reliant on Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) to provide educational services for their stakeholders.
While most of the Universities in Europe and North America has harnessed the
capabilities of cloud services to provide large scale flexibly electronic
educational services. In Saudi Arabia, most of the Universities are start-ups
with limited IT Staff and ICT infrastructure. Therefore, migrating their ICT
services to cloud computing could deliver substantial benefits in the form of
rich education content, increased efficiency, and agility that can be used to
transform higher education in Saudi universities. However, to successfully
migrate to the cloud in the Saudi universities context, it is essential to identify
the enabler factors that contribute toward a successful migration to the
cloud environment in the higher education settings. Therefore, this research
paper proposes a framework to investigate technological and organizational
success factors that enable the migration process of the Saudi Universities’
ICT to the cloud environment.
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المؤتمر (4):
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عنوان المؤتمر:
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2016 International
Conference on Information Society (i-Society)
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تاريخ الإنعقاد:
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10/10/2016
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مكان الإنعقاد:
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Dublin, Ireland
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عنوان المشاركة:
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Security risk factors that influence cloud computing adoption in
Saudi Arabia government agencies
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طبيعة المشاركة:
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Conference Paper
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رابط المشاركة:
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Here
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ملخص المشاركة
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Nowadays,
Universities have become more reliant on Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) to provide educational services for their stakeholders.
While most of the Universities in Europe and North America has harnessed the
capabilities of cloud services to provide large scale flexibly electronic
educational services. In Saudi Arabia, most of the Universities are start-ups
with limited IT Staff and ICT infrastructure. Therefore, migrating their ICT
services to cloud computing could deliver substantial benefits in the form of
rich education content, increased efficiency, and agility that can be used to
transform higher education in Saudi universities. However, to successfully
migrate to the cloud in the Saudi universities context, it is essential to
identify the enabler factors that contribute toward a successful migration to
the cloud environment in the higher education settings. Therefore, this
research paper proposes a framework to investigate technological and organizational
success factors that enable the migration process of the Saudi Universities’
ICT to the cloud environment.
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المؤتمر (5):
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عنوان المؤتمر:
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10th IEEE International Conference on Internet of
Things (iThings-2017)
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تاريخ الإنعقاد:
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21-23/06/2017
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مكان
الإنعقاد:
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Exeter, UK
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طبيعة المشاركة:
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Paper presentation
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عنوان المشاركة:
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Integration of Cloud Computing
with Internet of Things: Challenges and Open Issues
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ملخص المشاركة:
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is
becoming the next Internet-related revolution. It allows billions of devices
to be connected and communicate with each other to share information that
improves the quality of our daily lives. On the other hand, Cloud Computing
provides on-demand, convenient and scalable network access which makes it
possible to share computing resources; indeed, this, in turn, enables dynamic
data integration from various data sources. There are many issues standing in
the way of the successful implementation of both Cloud and IoT. The
integration of Cloud Computing with the IoT is the most effective way on
which to overcome these issues. The vast number of resources available on the
Cloud can be extremely beneficial for the IoT, while the Cloud can gain more
publicity to improve its limitations with real world objects in a more
dynamic and distributed manner. This paper provides an overview of the
integration of the Cloud into the IoT by highlighting the integration
benefits and implementation challenges. Discussion will also focus on the
architecture of the resultant Cloud-based IoT paradigm and its new
applications scenarios. Finally, open issues and future research directions are
also suggested.
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