Name: Gurpreet

Family Name: Dhillon

Affiliation: Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

Personal web-site: www.dhillon.us.com

Short BIO

Dr. Gurpreet Dhillon is Professor of Information Systems at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA and a Guest Professor at ISEG, Universidade Téchnica De Lisboa, Portugal. He holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Gurpreet has authored seven books including Principles of Information Systems Security: text and cases (John Wiley, 2007) and over 100 research manuscripts. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information System Security. Gurpreet’s research has been featured in various academic and commercial publications and his expert comments have appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, Business Week, NBC News, among others.

Title of the presentation

Can a Cloud be Really Secure? A Socratic Dialogue

Issues related to Cloud Computing security are emerging to be important and of concern to various stakeholders. However there is little consensus as to what the nature and scope of such challenges might be. Clearly there are multiple points of view with respect to management of Could Computing security. In this paper we adopt an innovative way - the Socratic Dialogue - as a means to present several perspectives and the discordances therein.

On-line publications

Dhillon, G. and Torkzadeh, G. (2006) “Value Focused Assessment of Information System Security in Organizations”. Information Systems Journal. Vol 16. No 3.

Dhillon, G. (2007) Principles of Information Systems Security: text and cases. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Lapke, M. and Dhillon, G. (2008). Power relationships in information systems security policy formulation and implementation. 16th Annual European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2008, Galway, Ireland

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