Auditing cloud computing migration

Abstract

This paper presents a tool used to audit the cloud adoption within a company. The first section states the main advantages of the cloud computing environment together with its biggest challenges that can introduce significant risks within a company. In order to assess properly the cloud computing adoption, we developed a web based tool that assists the internal auditor in the pre-migration process. Section II describes in details the Migration Assessment Tool (MAT). Starting with its architecture, we presented the main objects manipulated by our application in order to implement a cloud adoption assessment. In order to compute the impact, we classified the questions in different domains and we defined the dependencies between the questions. At the end of section II, we presented the process implemented in MAT when assessing a cloud migration. The paper ends with conclusions that state the main benefits of our approach and future improvements for MAT.