xiv ABBREVIATIONS
ENISA
European Union Agency for Network and Information Security
EU
European Union
FaaS
Function-as-a-Service
FIPPs
Fair Information Practice Principles
FTC
Federal Trade Commission
GDPR
General Data Protection Regulation
HIPAA
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HITECH
Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical
Health Act
IaaS
Infrastructure as a Service
ICO
Information Commissioner’s Office
ICT
Information and Communication Technologies
IDC
International Data Corporation
IFIP
International Federation for Information Processing
IoT
Internet of Things
IP
Intellectual Property
IPC
Internet Privacy Concerns
IS
Information Systems
ISAE
International Standard on Assurance. Engagements
ISO
International Organization for Standardization
IT
Information Technology
IUIPC
Internet Users’ Information Privacy Concern
KPI
Key Performance Indicators
MCS
Monte Carlo Simulation
ODR
Online Dispute Resolution
OpEx
Operational Expenditure
PaaS
Platform as a Service
PC
Privacy Concerns
PCI-DSS
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
PCT
Privacy Calculus Theory
QoS
Quality of Service
SA
Supervisory Authority
SaaS
Software as a Service
SeDaSC
Secure Data Sharing in Clouds
SLA
Service Level Agreement
SMI
Service Measurement Index
SOC
Service Organization Control
SSE
Searchable Symmetric Encryption
SSRF
Server-side Request Forgery
STOVE
Strict, Observable, Verifiable Data and Execution
ToS
Terms of Service
UDHR
United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
VM
Virtual Machine