Category: Security
Be careful when you use the cloud…
Here’s a cautionary tale of what can happen when your connection to that data is pulled because of accusations that you violated Terms of Service. Google Apps user Dylan M. was a happy user (and evangelist it seems) of numerous Google services — until the company disabled his Google account. On July 15 he received [...]
Lesser Known Threats Of Cloud Computing
Security has been one of the major stumbling blocks which has prevented cloud computing from achieving wide acceptance from the business community. Threats in offsite infrastructure are vastly different from the ones that you encounter in traditional onsite management facilities. Different approaches that would involve both vendors and buyers need to be employed when dealing [...]
Federal Risk and Authorization Program (FedRAMP)
The Federal Risk and Authorization Program, or FedRAMP), is a “risk management program for large outsourced and multi-agency information systems used by the U.S. government. The program was created by the Federal Government in response to the unique security demands of the cloud computing environment. The main purpose of FedRAMP is to facilitate the [...]
Cloud Computing and Patent Trolls: How To Prepare Now
Here’s the scenario: Your IT team writes a web service, and part of its WSDL interface includes a hash algorithm the team came up with on their own. You publish the API and your business partners use your clever little hash in integrating with across cloud services. Years later, you get a letter from a [...]
Cloud Printers A Security Risk?
The modern printer is one of the most versatile bits of office equipment around. New printer models can scan, copy, and print your documents in a flash. Some advanced printers can even be hooked up to the Internet and through cloud technologies such as Google Cloud Print and Hp ePrint, you can use them remotely [...]
Virtualization Can be key to Cloud Security, RSA Chief says
Virtualization technologies can help enable better security and control in cloud computing environments, RSA chief Art Coviello said today. In a keynote address at the RSA Security Conference here, Coviello struck an optimistic tone on cloud security issues. While he acknowledged some of the concerns enterprises might have about moving data and applications to the [...]
Is Virtual Security The Key To Cloud Computing Success?
RSA, a computer company that offer cloud computing services, is bullish about the prospects of virtual system management platforms. According to its president, Art Coviello, one major stumbling block of this revolutionary technology is security. He believes that if cloud computing firms properly utilize virtualization technologies, it would become possible to develop security infrastructure that [...]
Effectively Manage Storage and Protect Data in the Cloud
Organizations of all sizes have to deal with an economic reality when it comes to cloud computing: cloud computing requires storage. These budgets continue to remain relatively flat even as demand for cloud storage capacity grows at a rate of nearly 60 percent per year. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Stephen Wojtowecz explains how organizations can [...]
Take your app security with you to the cloud
Great article from Bill Pennington Cloud computing is becoming a fundamental part of information technology. Nearly every enterprise is evaluating or deploying cloud solutions. Even as business managers turn to the cloud to reduce costs, streamline staff, and increase efficiencies, they remain wary about the security of their applications. Many companies express concern about turning [...]
Video: UP2010 Virtual Cloud Conference – Windows Azure Security Essentials for Technology Decision Makers
Security is a huge topic in any discussion regarding the public cloud. This session from the Nov 2010 UP2010 virtual cloud event is led by Distinguished Engineer Yousef Khalidi. It provides a terrific walk thru of how to think thru security considerations in general and for the Windows Azure Platform specifically.
Guest Post – Security in the Cloud – the way to go?
Estimates by Gartner show that the software as a service (SaaS) market is expected to grow to 18% by 2013, up from 6% of software sales in 2007. This indicates that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) which wish to secure their corporate network using the latest technologies but have a tight budget or limited IT [...]
Holy Cow! Autonomy private cloud hits 17 petabytes
Autonomy is a software and infrastructure company that was a wide range of offerings including running a private cloud for storing information and other uses for its customers. The company has announced that its private cloud computing platform has hit an impressive milestone. The private cloud now manages more than 17 petabytes of information. That [...]
3 bogus myths about the private cloud
So that you don’t get fooled and waste countless dollars and hours pursuing a silly private cloud strategy egged on by self-interested vendors, here are the top three vendor-created myths that need to be dispelled. Private cloud myth 1: It’s illegal to use a public cloud in your industry, so you need a private cloud [...]
Interest Growing in Private Cloud Computing
While there’s still plenty of room for growth among enterprises for straight ahead, consolidation-oriented server virtualization projects, many organizations are looking to take their virtualization deployments to the next level. How? By shaping their data centers into elastic and self-service platforms akin to those built by large cloud computing outfits such as Amazon.com and Salesforce.com. [...]
SAP Moves Emissions Reporting to the Cloud
SAP has begun the first of what is anticipated to become an ever-growing migration of reporting mechanisms to a cloud platform. With its newly launched version 5.0 of SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand, which reports carbon emissions, the software company is positioning the product at a lower cost and at various scales. SAP is using Amazon’s [...]
Cloud Security Still a Struggle for Many Companies
You want to embrace cloud computing because it makes your IT operations leaner and less expensive. But your understanding of cloud security hasn’t advanced much in the last year, so you have to be cautious. Security Firm: Apple Has More Security Holes Than Microsoft That’s one of the takeaways from the Eighth Annual Global Information [...]
Cloud Computing Buyer Beware
By David F Carr Jon West figured he couldn’t lose by going to Rackspace for hosting. “I’d heard all about the ‘fanatical support,’ and blah, blah, blah,” he says. Also, this cloud computing thing seemed to be pretty hot–instant scalability on demand and pay-as-you-go pricing. But for West, at least, the Rackspace Cloud turned out [...]
U.S. army takes cloud computing to Afghanistan
TAMPA — The U.S. military is taking cloud computing into rugged terrain in Afghanistan, where according to Lt. Gen. Richard Zahner, the basic hardware and software technology is being packed into mobile boxes that later this year will start to play a key role in networking for soldiers in the sky and on the ground. [...]
Cloud Computing legal considerations
Legal Issues in Cloud Computing Organizations considering using the cloud computing model should carefully consider a long list of legal issues before taking the plunge, an attorney advises. In an interview, Marilyn Lamar, a partner at Liss & Lamar, advises those considering using remotely hosted applications to: Make sure the cloud computing vendor adequately addresses [...]
Trusted Computing Group eyes cloud security framework
The Trusted Computing Group Monday announced a working group aimed at publishing an open standards framework for cloud computing security that could serve as a blueprint for service providers, their customers and vendors building security products. Known as the Trusted Multi-Tenant Infrastructure Work Group, there are about 50 TCG members participating, including HP, IBM, AMD [...]
Novell Promises No More Private Cloud Lock-In With Cloud Manager
After months of prep, Novell (NSDQ:NOVL) on Monday officially made available Cloud Manager, its cloud computing creation and management tool, a product the Waltham, Mass.-based company said will help cloud hopefuls avoid the vendor lock-in trap. Novell’s Cloud Manager, which had been in beta, helps customers build and keep tabs on their private cloud computing [...]
Setting Up A Private Cloud
As a way to exercise greater control over security and application availability, some enterprises are moving toward building private clouds. With the right approach and expertise in place, this type of setup can offer the best of both worlds: the cost-effectiveness of cloud computing and the assurance that comes with the ability to manage data [...]
Encryption comes to the cloud…
Trend Micro is blazing a new trail with a service called SecureCloud intended to give enterprises a way to encrypt data in cloud-computing environments. SecureCloud allows you to maintain control over the encryption key used to secure data stored in the Amazon EC2, Eucalyptus or VMware vCloud cloud infrastructures. Other cloud-computing variants could be added [...]
The Benefits of Cloud-Based Anti-Spam Solutions
The architects of the Internet envisioned it as a medium to disseminate information. Data was accessed and often stored on hard disk for later retrieval. At the time, it was probably difficult to foresee the shift spawned by advancements in cloud computing. Many organizations have opted to embrace a hybrid cloud model where some services [...]
Deloitte says Security an area of concern in cloud computing
Even as an increasing number of Indian firms look at embracing cloud computing, data security continues to remain a primary concern for them, said research firm Deloitte. Cloud computing allows companies to use services, softwares and applications on a pay-per-use model without actually owning any hardware infrastructure or licence. This helps companies save on setting [...]
Salesforce’s Chatter for the enterprise
Salesforce.com on Tuesday said that its Chatter corporate social networking platform is now generally available. For existing customers, Chatter is free as a new feature. The company has a Chatter-only option for $15 a month for each user. Chatter takes the best features of Facebook and Twitter and integrates them into the enterprise. According to [...]
Salesforce's Chatter for the enterprise
Salesforce.com on Tuesday said that its Chatter corporate social networking platform is now generally available. For existing customers, Chatter is free as a new feature. The company has a Chatter-only option for $15 a month for each user. Chatter takes the best features of Facebook and Twitter and integrates them into the enterprise. According to [...]
malware in the cloud
Having been one of the many victims of McAfee.com’s ‘false-positive’ problem back in April, I’ve been wondering whether there’s a better way of protecting against malware, as some of the commentary at the time seemed to imply. My quest at the time led to an interview during London’s InfoSec show with Gerhard Eschelbeck, CTO of [...]
Guest Blog: The Cloud Understands Geography
***This is a guest blog post from Patrick Jobin of Storagepipe.com. The views in this post do not necessarily reflect the opinions of CloudComputingZone.com. If you are would like to guest blog for us, use our contact form and send us your submission*** I think that, by this point, most of the suspicion and distrust [...]
Can Cloud Computing help improve security
Cloud computing adds security challenges, but also provides opportunities to improve security posture, according to Steve Lipner, senior director of security engineering strategy at Microsoft. In addition to traditional threats such as cross-site scripting, code injection and denial of service, cloud computing expands some of those threats and introduces others, he said. “Data privacy issues such [...]
