Cloud Computing has an advantage that it can reduce costs, enhance business capabilities and save resources and energy nationally through the internet based on virtualization technologies and distributed data processing technologies. For this reason, ...
Cloud Computing has an advantage that it can reduce costs, enhance business capabilities and save resources and energy nationally through the internet based on virtualization technologies and distributed data processing technologies. For this reason, global IT forecasting agencies such Gartner and IDC name Cloud Computing as core technologies that will change IT trends and they predict the sudden increase of related markets. Accordingly, public institutions and large companies in South Korea have also expanded the investments for Cloud Computing and have introduced the service. However, it is the reality that Korean market has insufficient legal systems for supporting the market and there are no proper policies for ensuring security and stability yet among leading companies such as Amazon and Salesforce.com which are leading the global market of Cloud Computing service.
Therefore, the enactment of an Act 「The law of Cloud Computing Development and user protection」(It is called "Cloud law") was scheduled to legislate in July 2012. It is expected that this Cloud law will contribute to promoting the development and use of Cloud Computing in South Korea and creating the safe service environment as a separate law which regulates only Cloud Computing service. In addition to the legislation of this law, related policies such as protection of personal information and information security emphasized in Cloud Computing service and copyright protection policies in Cloud should be delivered actively. Then, the safe service environment of Cloud Computing service and sound distribution environment of a copyrighted work should be created. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to insist on the following solutions as policies for protection of personal information, information security and copyright protection.
First, the most essential problem related to personal information in Clouding Computing service is the protection about personal information of users stored dispersively in many countries. For this problem, we need to achieve the real time back-up of information by establishing the mirroring back-up server. Also, we need to make a policy for restricting overseas transfer of information suitable for the situation in South Korea by benchmarking a successful case of EU's 'Safe Harbor Framework' agreement. In addition, we need to improve the reliability of service and allow users to extend an option for service by activating certification system of Cloud service.
Second, we need to prepare for unexpected service interruption by introducing Cloud Escrow for information security and data protection and to secure the stability by making users register for guarantee insurance as a countermeasure. Also, we need to create the active data protection by securing Cloud interoperability between public sector and private sector and to provide the reliable and consistent quality service to users by promoting the observance of Cloud Service Level Agreement for Cloud service providers.
Last, we need to make every effort to stop the distribution of illegal copyrighted work in Clould service by introducing 'reporting system of Cloud Computing providers' using Web hard registration system for copyright protection. In addition, we need to make every effort to protect a copyrighted work more actively by using technical protection measures for access control on the revised copyright law and giving the responsibility for filtering to Cloud Computing service providers with specific requirements.