Items Tagged with "Cloud Computing"
TechAmerica and INSA Form Cloud Advisory Groups
March 12, 2011 Added by:Kevin L. Jackson
The INSA Cloud Computing Task Force, as an element of the INSA Cyber Security Council, will focus on ways to enhance adoption of cloud computing for national security missions. TechAmerica announced the formation of a "cloud computing commission" to advise the White House...
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Moving Your Data to the Cloud – Sense and Sensibility
March 10, 2011 Added by:Danny Lieberman
Using a cloud service provider for storing sensitive data may actually reduce the threat surface instead of increasing it and give you more control by centralizing and standardizing data storage as part of your overall data governance strategy...
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Is Oracle Playing Nice With Java and MySQL?
March 09, 2011 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
Despite a series of snubs toward the Java community, Oracle continues to engage and just recently offered up a new Java Specification Request (JSR) 342, intended to convert Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 7 into a building block of cloud services...
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SMBs, the Cloud and Disaster Recovery
March 09, 2011 Added by:Ben Kepes
Despite organizations identifying recovery time as a critical aspect of DR, and despite them estimating the cost of extended downtime at a very high rate, only 55% of respondents actually have any faith that their data will be completely restored within hours of an outage...
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On Cloud Logging Standards and Unique IDs
March 07, 2011 Added by:Anton Chuvakin
Cloud computing, as defined by NIST, has inherent multi-tenancy, elasticity, immediate provisioning and other fun properties, not found in traditional applications and platforms – whether distributed or not. All of these happen to affect accountability, auditability and transparency...
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RSA 2011 Conference Notes from Anton Chuvakin
March 05, 2011 Added by:Anton Chuvakin
Most “analyst takeaways” from were about cloud and mobility. I heard a fun opinion on IT consumerization: if you deal with the security of employee devices by banning them, you will make your organization unattractive to the best employees – thus increasing, not reducing, your business risk...
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Google Plays Lost and Found With Gmail Accounts
March 02, 2011 Added by:Headlines
What is quite interesting about the event is the revelation from Google that the data for Gmail is backed up on tapes. Yes, Google, which maintains some of the largest network storage systems in the world, backs up data on relatively antiquated tapes...
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Gmail Data Vanishes Into the Cloud
February 28, 2011 Added by:Headlines
More than a few Gmail users logged into their accounts this weekend to find that all of their email, chats, photos, and documents were no longer available. Many of the affected users were simply greeted with the Gmail "welcome" message as if their accounts were newly created...
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RSA: Matt Alderman of Qualys Talks App Sec and the Cloud
February 22, 2011
Anthony M. Freed interviews Matt Alderman, Director of Product Management for Qualys. Matt has experience in solutions-oriented Governance, Risk Management and GRC, as well as directing a broad range of corporate compliance initiatives while designing, planning and implementing compliance solutions in direct support of client business objectives.
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RSA: Cox Com. CISO Phil Agcaoili Talks Cloud and about Infosec Island
February 18, 2011
Anthony M. Freed interviews Island member and Cox Communications CISO Phil Agcaoili on Cloud computing, some of the legal issues involved, and where its all going.
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The True State of Next-Generation Data Centers
February 12, 2011 Added by:Ben Kepes
As the cloud computing trends continue to inundate the IT market, organizations must seek ways to ensure capacity required to run business critical applications. During the shift to the cloud, capacity must be available and current infrastructure needs to maintain a strong hold on efficiency...
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How the Cloud Can Lock You In
February 05, 2011 Added by:Rahul Neel Mani
Organizations look at it as I have to protect my data either for importance or compliance reasons, maintain it and have it totally secure. Whether it be the aspect of authorization, authentication, or encryption of the data, information management security becomes a key component...
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Internet Security Alliance News and Upcoming Events
February 02, 2011 Added by:Marjorie Morgan
Larry Clinton will be featured on a Federal News Radio panel that will discuss Advanced Persistent Threats and the industrial strength hacking. The discussion will explore how the threat has evolved, the implications are for business, government officials, society, and the growing challenge...
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High-Performance Computing in the Enterprise
January 29, 2011 Added by:Rahul Neel Mani
Eng Lin Goh, CTO, SGI in a conversation with Geetaj Channana on the evolution of the company after its takeover by Rackable, and their contribution to cloud computing and high-performance computing in the enterprise...
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Global GovCloud and the Virtual Environment
January 27, 2011 Added by:Kevin L. Jackson
Recently I had the awesome experience of participating in a global tele-presence conference on government cloud computing. A key takeaway for me was that pre-integrated cloud infrastructure solutions have been credited with reducing the non-recurring engineering cost of private clouds...
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The Public Cloud versus the Private Cloud
January 21, 2011 Added by:Rahul Neel Mani
Peter Coffee, Head of Platform Research for Salesforce.com discusses with Geetaj Channana how the public cloud is like a supermarket and the private cloud is like sticking a shovel in the ground and beginning to grow your own dinner...