Today, almost all businesses operate in a rapidly changing technological environment due to the changes that are being driven by digitalization. Digitalization includes a technology-based transformation of organizations, products, services, business processes and IT-architecture.The development has contributed to a shift in the IT-world from internally generated computer power to more tool-based computer resources, such as services over the Internet,also called cloud services.

Cloud services are a growing paradigm and lead to new discussions about security and integrity. The study aims to compare the transition of the public and private sectors to cloud services. The survey also intends to take a closer look at how security and integrity aspects affect the two sectors' views on the concept of processing and storing data in cloud services.The study was based on a qualitative method, and through semi-structured interviews with respondents from both cloud service providers and consumer businesses collected relevant data. The study uses the framework for technology-organization-environment (TOE) to empirically examine differences in how the two sectors relate to security and integrity in cloud services. The results indicate that cloud service providers have come a long way in the work around IT-security technically. Today, secure and efficient cloud services are offered with good scalability, and most people today fairly agree that cloud service providers have better knowledge, capacity and resources to actually handle security than the organizations themselves (technology). Competence within organizations is also an important factor that plays a role in the security and integrity of the cloud services (organization). Finally, the r esults show that the public sector differs from the private sector in the level of sensitive data that is stored and handled, which means that it is tightly controlled by legislation. Thus, the public sector has a higher set of requirements for how data is handled, which means that one needs to relate to security and integrity at a higher level (environment).