Abstract
Cloud computing is an emerging paradigm of computing that replaces computing as a personal commodity by computing as a public utility. As such, it offers all the advantages of a public utility system, in terms of economy of scale, flexibility, convenience but it raises major issues, not least of which are: loss of control and loss of security. In this paper, we explore a user-centered measure of cyber-security, and see how this measure can be used to analyze cloud computing as a business model.