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I thought this piece by Jo Maitland over at SearchCloudComputing.com was interesting, because it so closely reflects the experiences of a large number of businesses faced with the specter of uncontrolled cloud usage. Indeed, the story is an old, familiar one: Girl meets cloud. Girl ...

It is every professional organisations desire to keep their valuable IPR safe, secure, and beyond the reach of compromise. To achieve this, many invest in some form of DLP application to assure security is accommodated. However, it is here where the creeping disease of over dependency on application ...

As we roll up to the end of the year it's usually time to start making predictions about what will happen next year. But since Drew and the team already did a great job of that I'll instead take a step back and take a look at the shape of the forest, rather than discuss individual trees (import ...

2010 was the year we ‘thought’ about cloud. 2011 was the era we realised it could be an option which could support improvements in operational efficiencies, whilst at the same time reducing running costs. 2012 'will' be the year when we will see the take up start to evolve and surge. The ...

  Yesterday, looking at my RSS-Feed I saw the post in here called Cloud Security Considerations – and immediately wanted to read it as we (a friend of mine and me) wrote a paper with exactly the same title. I was so thrilled that somebody else takes this to blog about – however I w ...

By Ken Biery Can a cloud be as secure as a traditional network? In a word, yes! I agree that some may find this statement surprising. Depending on the network, that may be a low bar, but good security principles and approaches are just as applicable to cloud environments as they are to tradition ...

By Allen Allison Regardless of your industry, customer base, or product, it is highly likely that you face regulatory compliance requirements. If you handle Protected Health Information (PHI), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) – along with the HITECH enhancement ...

By Ken Biery This two-part guest blog series explores the topic of cloud security. Part one of the series focuses on the questions enterprise IT decision makers should ask when considering moving business applications to a cloud-based computing environment. There is no shortage of information abo ...

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. ...

By Merritt Maximi A major benefit associated with deploying identity management and/or identity governance into an organization is that these solutions provide the ability to detect and remove orphan accounts. Orphan accounts refer to active accounts belonging to a user who is no longer involved w ...

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 ...

By Stuart Lisk File transfer has been around since the beginning of time. Ok, well maybe that is an exaggeration, but the point is, file transfer was one of the earliest uses of “network” computing dating back to the early 1970’s when IBM introduced the floppy disk. While we have ...

Being a free spirit in the interesting, evolving world of cyber/information security (or is that insecurity?) I am privileged to work with some very interesting organisations, and the year 2011 has proven to be one of the best. The great thing about working with the experts, and visionaries of the n ...

“Insider attack” is back in the news, getting attention again, with good reason. This particular article, “Insiders increasingly linked to data breaches in the financial sector” on infosecurity-us.com discusses the continuing problem of insiders within the financial services ...

By Ed King The elephant in the room when it comes to barriers to the growth and adoption of cloud computing by enterprises is the lack of trust held for cloud service providers. Enterprise IT has legitimate concerns over the security, integrity, and reliability of cloud-based services. The r ...

By Oded Valin “When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight.” There’s a lot we can identify with when it comes to reciting FedEx’s famous slogan, especially as it relates to modern file transfer processes. When you think about sharing health care records, financ ...

By Allen Allison With the rapid adoption of cloud computing technologies, IT organizations have found a way to deliver applications and services more quickly and efficiently to their customers, incorporating the nearly ubiquitous utility-like platforms of managed cloud services companies. The use ...

Magnus Stjernstrom recently pointed out Cisco’s advice on how to detect Dropbox traffic originating in your network. It’s interesting given what it tells us about the concerns of Cisco's customers: "Dropbox network traffic may consume network resources and may be a vector f ...

Let us set the scene. You are an IT Manager working for a very successful SME, who notwithstanding the economic downturn are commercially flourishing. Keen to maintain the competitive edge, Monday morning the MD sends out a mail to all teams to tease out any ideas which could improve their services, ...

I have been involved with virtual environments for about a decade now, supporting client consultations, and implementations. Over this period, I have observed growth, from what was once considered a novelty technology, through to today’s technological solutions supporting leading edge operatio ...