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Let me tell you what the work of a reclusive horror writer and a morning cup of coffee can teach us about attitudes toward cloud computing. The horror writer is Howard Phillips Lovecraft (known by his initials “H.P.”). In his short, but prolific career at the turn of the 20th century he ...

You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs, or in this case grating a few nerves. However, the 'King has no Clothes' approach has never really worked for me, or for that matter, as an instrument to cloak, what would seem to be a sprinkling of lacklustre strategies for defending against t ...

Good post here from Brandon Williams on the inherent weakness of security processes that ignores the human element. There's nothing new in saying that humans are the weakest link in the security chain (ok, in *most* people's security chain) but Brandon's right: People really are the new perimeter. ...

Last week, I went to lunch with Dave Abraham, co-founder and CEO of Signify, an information security company that delivers two-factor authentication.   One of their leading products is the RSA SecurID token. Yes, the red and blue ones. Yes, the ones that have been very famously compromised ...