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How to Adopt the Public Cloud While Attaining Private Cloud Control and Security

By Gerry Grealish Earlier this year, McKinsey & Company released an article titled “Protecting information in the cloud,” discussing the increased use of cloud computing by enterprises across several industries and the benefits and risks associated with cloud usage. The article reco ...

Posted 26 April 2013 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)

tags: cloud computing, public cloud, private cloud, encryption, encryption gateway

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Going Up? Safety First, then Send your Data to the Cloud

By Joe Sturonas As the proliferation of data continues to plague businesses, the pressure is on for companies to migrate away from their physical data centers. Cloud computing is being adopted at a rapid rate because it addresses not only the costs for physical space, but also rising energy costs a ...

Posted 28 March 2013 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)

tags: cloud computing, compliance, encryption

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How to Harden Your APIs

By Andy Thurai The market for APIs has experienced explosive growth in recent years, yet the major issues that providers still face are protection and hardening of the APIs that they expose to users. In particular, when you are exposing APIs from a cloud-based platform, this becomes very difficult ...

Posted 26 March 2013 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)

tags: API, cloud computing, identity, encryption, tokenization

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Three Critical Features that Define an Enterprise-Grade Cloud Service

By David Baker The line between enterprise and consumer is fading as employees work from all manner of devices to access the on-premises, cloud and even consumer applications needed to get work done. But it’s important to not confuse enterprise and consumer services from a security standpoint ...

Posted 22 March 2013 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)

tags: cloud computing, encryption, CSA STAR

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When Good Is Not Good Enough: NIST Raises the Bar for Cloud Data Protection Vendors

By David Stott Earlier this year, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a publication titled Cloud Computing Synopsis & Recommendations (Special Publication 800-146) describing in detail the current cloud computing environment, explaining the economic opport ...

Posted 21 February 2013 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)

tags: cloud computing, NIST, encryption, SaaS, FIPS 140-2, tokenization

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An Interview with Bernard Parsons, CEO, BeCrypt…

In the wonderfully opulent setting of the Savoy hotel, London, I recently met with the co-founder and CEO of BeCrypt, Bernard Parsons, and his colleague Keith Ricketts, head of marketing. Bernard Parsons isn’t your typical CEO. He’s quiet and understated but what he does say is intellig ...

Posted 26 November 2012 by Eleanor Dallaway

tags: BeCrypt, encryption, parsons, government , CEO

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The Impact of Computing Power on Cryptography

By Eric Hay Advanced technology is a beautiful thing. Not only has it enabled the creation of new, more efficient methods of application delivery and data storage (the Cloud is a prime example), but it’s also helped propel the development of more sophisticated solutions for data protection as ...

Posted 21 September 2012 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)

tags: cryptography, cloud computing, supercomputing, encryption, tokenization

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Broken WEP WiFi Encryption Still Operational in Large Numbers

Even after the world has witnessed major Wi-Fi security incidents, such as Google’s Wi-Fi snooping controversy, a recent survey has indicated that WEP based Wi-Fi networks are still operational in large numbers, even though, WEP, at present, is widely understood as an easily broken sec ...

Posted 07 September 2012 by Ajay Gupta

tags: Wi-Fi , Wi-Fi Security, Sophos, Warbiking, Wardriving, WPA, WPA2, WEP, Security, London, Aircrack-ng, encryption

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Is Crypto in the Cloud Enough?

By Jon-Michael C. Brook Box.net, DropBox, iCloud, SkyDrive, Amazon Cloud Drive... the list goes on for convenient cloud storage options. Some have had a security incident; the rest will. All implement some form of protection against accidental exposure with varying degrees of protection. Are these ...

Posted 27 August 2012 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)

tags: cloud computing, encryption

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Your Cloud Provider is a Partner…Not a One-Night Stand

By Eric Sheridan “We programmatically interface with Cloud Providers to manage our customer data, so we can rely on them for securing our services right?” Wrong! The moment you start interfacing with a Cloud Provider you immediately inherit the risks associated with their deployment, d ...

Posted 21 August 2012 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)

tags: cloud computing, cloud provider, application security, SaaS, encryption

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When It Comes To Cloud Security, Don’t Forget SSL

By Michael Lin, Symantec Cloud computing appears here to stay, bringing with it new challenges and security risks on one hand, while on the other hand boasting efficiencies, cost savings and competitive advantage. With the new security risks of cloud and the mounting skill and cunning of today&rsqu ...

Posted 30 September 2011 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)

tags: cloud, security, encryption, SSL

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Unhealthy Irritation

I have to admit, I find this sort of thing just irritating: The Register last week reported that eight million patient records were lost on a laptop. Unencrypted records. No, really. As a spokesperson for the UK's National Health Service (NHS) said: "We have set clear standards for NHS ...

Posted 20 June 2011 by Geoff Webb

tags: NHS, Laptop, Encryption, Breach

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Finding a Home for BitLocker

With the last several posts being about BitLocker (and especially Recovery Keys) hopefully you now have some idea of the things you will want to think about when planning for a BitLocker deployment. Beyond that, however, the obvious question that now needs to be addressed is: Where ...

Posted 17 May 2011 by Geoff Webb

tags: BitLocker, Encryption, Security

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Is Tokenization or Encryption Keeping You Up at Night?

By Stuart Lisk, Senior Product Manager, Hubspan Are you losing sleep over whether to implement tokenization or full encryption as your cloud security methodology? Do you find yourself lying awake wondering if you locked all the doors to your sensitive data? Your “sleepless with security&rdquo ...

Posted 20 April 2011 by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)

tags: tokenization, encryption, security

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Opening up BitLocker, part 2 – Recovery Keys

Last time I covered an introduction to BitLocker, the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and what TPM does to assist in keeping your system secure. This time I'm writing about the most important aspect of BitLocker management – Recovery Keys (and Recovery Passwords too). While one ...

Posted 14 April 2011 by Geoff Webb

tags: BitLocker, Encryption, Recovery Key

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Opening up BitLocker

It's hard to avoid the flurry of bad press following the recent loss of a laptop by a BP employee. Unfortunately for all concerned, the lost laptop contained the names and personal details of some 13,000 claimants from the Deepwater Horizon spill. The problem, of course, is not that the lapto ...

Posted 01 April 2011 by Geoff Webb

tags: Encryption, BitLocker

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Keeping Control in the Cloud

I had a great talk with Fred Donovan this week regarding cloud security. It's pretty clear that organizations of all kinds are very concerned about the risks (and the cost of those risks) when moving to adopt cloud services. It's also fair to say that the cloud providers are working diligentl ...

Posted 04 March 2011 by Geoff Webb

tags: Security, Cloud, Encryption

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Bad Week For USB Security

It's been a bad week for USB device security. A couple of potentially ugly breaches have highlighted, once more, the trouble organizations are having with managing removable media security. Over in the UK, the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site suffered what turned out to be a very embarras ...

Posted 22 October 2010 by Geoff Webb

tags: USB Security, Encryption, Healthcare Breach

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Should RIM hold its line on the BlackBerry?

Encryption is the sort of topic that rarely makes it into the mainstream media, but the recent hoopla over BlackBerry security, namely its encryption procedures, has drawn the ire of governments throughout Asia. India, the UAE, Saudi Arabia – all have taken issue with BlackBerry services and ...

Posted 18 August 2010 by Drew Amorosi

tags: encryption, BlackBerry, compliance & policy

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