Monthly Archive: April, 2011
Forrester: Cloud market to hit $240 billion by 2020
Despite the recent setback caused by the failure of Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing service last week, forecast for the cloud looks favorable, according to a recent Forrester Research report. While... Read More
Kundra: Federal government cloud adoption on track
Speaking at a White House event, federal government chief information officer Vivek Kundra recently said the government has now met several of the goals laid out in the IT restructuring... Read More
Report: Despite Amazon crisis, security remains biggest cloud concern
Recent technical difficulties experience by cloud computing giant Amazon have led some analysts to discuss issues surrounding the reliability and performance of cloud-based solutions. Despite this increased attention, however, some... Read More
Study: Cloud providers and users think differently about security
A recent study conducted by the Ponemon Institute, an independent research firm that specializes in information and data security, suggests there may be significant differences of opinion between users and... Read More
Napolitano: Cybersecurity a shared responsibility
Speaking to a group of engineering students at the University of California, Berkley, this week, Department of Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano asserted that security in cyber space can only... Read More
Should the Amazon Web Services EC2 outage impact cloud adoption?
Last Thursday, April 21, 2011 Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) had an outage that impacted multiple Availability Zones. Thursday morning, Amazon issued a status update indicating that the... Read More
Gauging whether data is secure in the cloud is an art unto itself
The security concerns around cloud computing are real, according to ShareFile CEO Jesse Lipson, but they may not be the same concerns foremost in the minds of IT professionals and... Read More
Report: FBI struggling to identify cyber criminals
As a growing number of companies, government agencies and other organizations migrate to the cloud, cloud computing security management has received increasing attention. According to a recent Fierce Government IT... Read More
CSA, ISO to establish cloud security standards
To help businesses and consumers become more comfortable storing information in the cloud, the Cloud Security Alliance recently announced a partnership with the International Organization for Standardization to establish cloud... Read More
70 million customers affected by the Sony breach
The most recent update update from Sony unfortunately confirms the worst fears of many. Between April 17th and 19th an “unauthorised person” gained access to the personal information of Sony’s... Read More
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Cloud Computing
- Cloud security group develops third-party certification program
- US makes large investment in cyber weaponry
- Wall Street has data security concerns over Bloomberg reporting
- Security in backups means more than just encryption
Virtualization
- Virtualization-specific challenges could threaten data security
- Evolving threats put security skills in high demand
- Virtualization security requires education, access control management
- Tips for launching effective virtual security tools
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- Virtualization-specific challenges could threaten data security
- Evolving threats put security skills in high demand
- Virtualization security requires education, access control management
- Tips for launching effective virtual security tools
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