Blog Posts Tagged with "Cloud Security"
The Dutch, the Yanks, the Cloud and YOU
December 13, 2012 Added by:Don Eijndhoven
Recently a research project by the Amsterdam University [PDF Alert] revealed that US law allows for the US government to access information stored in the Cloud, by (ab)using the PATRIOT act...
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CloudBeat 2012 - "Whose job is cloud security?"
December 11, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
People are still stuck on authentication, mainly passwords. We as an industry or customer base haven't been very good at figuring out how to manage identities, without sticking our customers with a million different sites which don't share common identities...
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On Terms of Service, and a Global Code
November 25, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
TOS;DR aims to help with what is possibly the biggest lie on the internet, that which users make when they click that they have read, understood and accepted the terms of service of their provider. The fact is that no one reads them but rather vaguely hopes for the best...
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Software is Eating the World, And APIs are the Fuel For That
November 13, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
The cloud brings a level of agility that allows organization to be more nimble than before. Cloud powers workers in disparate geographies to collaborate on projects. Cloud enables the mobile provisioning of mass information in new ways. Cloud makes insights into vast stores of data more readily obtained...
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CloudSigma and the Perils of Choice
November 06, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
As we move to broader scale cloud adoption, one would be excused for assuming that we’d reached a point where the definition of what constitutes IaaS is set in stone – true different vendors package up their virtual servers with different specs, but IaaS is, to a greater or lesser extent, a fixed concept...
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The Security Reality of Road Warriors
October 28, 2012 Added by:Barrie Hadfield
Marketing and sales professionals will, inevitability, require a cloud-based collaboration processes or they face a potential competitive disadvantage. Therefore, IT executives are best-served by investigating the rate at which their employees are using unsanctioned tools that facilitate potential breaches...
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eSignatures Go Keyless in the Cloud
October 02, 2012 Added by:Victor Cruz
It has been 12 years since the US passed a law to facilitate the use of electronic records and electronic signatures. Called the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (ESIGN), its general intent in black and white is quoted in the very first section of the legislation...
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Accessibility and the Untold Issue Around Cloud Computing
September 26, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
The decision was made during the consultation process that universal design and accessibility issues should be outside the scope of the document. That was a necessary decision as the drive was to come up with a readily consumable document that vendors could easily comply with...
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Third Party Service Providers and PCI Compliance
September 25, 2012 Added by:PCI Guru
If a third party is providing your organization a service that has access to your cardholder data environment (CDE) or the third party could come into contact you’re your cardholder data (CHD), then that third party must ensure that the service complies with all relevant PCI requirements...
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Preparing Developers for Tomorrow’s Cloudy World
September 17, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
"The advent of cloud computing has removed infrastructure as a barrier to rapid and massive scaling of applications. [IaaS and Paas have] made it possible for a developer to create an application one day and have it utilized by hundreds of thousands of users the next..."
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CIOs Seek Value But See Challenges with Cloud Computing
September 16, 2012 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
The face of corporate IT changes dramatically with a move to the cloud – no longer do people need to spend time racking and stacking servers, patching software and other low level tasks – the fact is that in the long run individual organizations will not have email server administrators, desktop software support personnel or systems administrators...
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Are Applications and Services on the Public Cloud Secure?
September 15, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Any application that was built to be secured independently of the environment will do as well in a public cloud as it did in your private data center. If you build the application to be low-risk independent of your environmental controls you shouldn't have to worry where it lives...
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Data is the New Perimeter for Cloud Security
September 12, 2012 Added by:Mike Gault
The security market in 2012 is estimated at $60 billion, yet adding more layers of perimeter security may be completely useless against a determined sysadmin working on the inside. The end result is that your data might or might not be secure – you simply have no way to prove it...
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Data Mobility and Security Biggest Cloud Computing Concern
September 10, 2012 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
BYOD issues continue to cause headaches for IT departments. Security mandates grow exponentially as they struggle to prevent data leaks from private networks onto public clouds. The biggest concerns with public clouds are the loss of data and control of the location of that data...
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Keeping Safe In The Cloud
September 09, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
“With the cloud, you don’t own anything. You already signed it away through the legalistic terms of service with a cloud provider that computer users must agree to... the more we transfer everything onto the web, onto the cloud, the less we’re going to have control over it...”
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Google Wallet: Please Tell Me They’re Joking...
September 08, 2012 Added by:Joel Harding
No computer in the world is safe from a determined hacker. Most of us don’t properly secure our computer, our smart phone, or even our wallets. So how in the heck does storing your credit and debit card information “in the cloud” help you secure your already vulnerable information?
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