Recognizing the pivotal role of casualties as a metric for assessing the success of terrorist acts, this study endeavors to unravel the underlying factors shaping the casualty count in drone terrorist attacks across the globe. By applying Zero Negative Binomial Regression Analysis on data sourced from the Global Terrorism Database, we discern significant factors influencing the number of terrorist casualties. Our findings reveal the paramount importance of the target facility's significance, the attack type, the utilization of remote-controlled drones, the deployment of suicide drones equipped with explosive payloads, and the audacious strategy of swarming drone attacks.
The advent of digital technologies such as cloud computing has provided enormous opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to digitalise their businesses. However, with increasing cloud computing adoption, the security and privacy threats to the SMEs are on the rise. By conducting an extensive review of literature, this paper examines and identifies the security factors that influence cloud computing adoption specifically by SMEs. The literature review focused on papers published in ten years related to the security requirements and associated cloud computing adoption factors by SMEs. The framework focused on understanding socio-technical factors that influence the intent to adopt cloud computing by SMEs. The findings attest to the impacts of key security and privacy-related factors (including cloud security standard, data privacy concerns, data security concerns, skilled personnel, technology readiness, perceived cloud security benefits, legal compliance and trust in cloud service providers) on SMEs' intent to adopt cloud computing.
