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By Stuart Lisk  Business continuity remains a major concern for enterprises as they move more mission-critical processes to the cloud. Outsourcing B2B integration while ensuring cloud security in order to effectively integrate business processes is challenging at best, and ambiguous for certai ...

By Chris Hinkley Cloud Security is not a myth. It can be achieved. The biggest hindrance on debunking this myth is for enterprise businesses to begin thinking about the Cloud differently. It is not the equipment of co-location dedicated servers, or on-premises technology, as it is changeable, flexi ...

By David Lingenfelter Cloud computing brings with it new opportunities, new frontiers, new challenges, and new chances for loss of intellectual property. From hosting simple websites, to entire development environments, companies have been experimenting with cloud-based services for some time. Wh ...

By Todd Thiemann Whether driven by regulatory compliance or corporate mandates, sensitive data in the cloud needs protection along with access control. This usually involves encrypting data in transit as well as data at rest in some way, shape or form, and then managing the encryption keys to acces ...

By Jon-Michael C. Brook Let's be honest: how many of you have tried logging in to one of your former employer’s accounts? Maybe you had a CRM solution and you wanted to get the name of that guy who suggested he had the next hot idea. You didn't set your out-of-office message with your new/p ...

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 ...

By Henry St. Andre In 1983, I was a young electrical engineering student, when I took a job working for a small long distance company in Phoenix, Arizona. For me, Opportunity had Knocked and I had just opened the door on an amazing future. In the world of communications, things were already chang ...

By Torsten George Cloud computing represents today's big innovation trend in the information technology (IT) space. Because it allows organizations to deploy quickly, move swiftly, and share resources, cloud computing is rapidly replacing conventional in-house facilities at organizations of all siz ...

It was at about 2 PM when I had settled into my chair to begin moderating our latest webinar on securing cloud servers. Not far into my introductions, I noticed a bit of a rumble beneath my feet, as if someone where taking a jackhammer to the ceiling on the floor below. It was a slight hum at first, ...

By Eric Baize In Survey after survey, security and more specifically the lack of control and visibility around what is happening to your information on cloud provider premises, is listed as the number one barrier to cloud adoption. So far, there have been two approaches to solving the problem: ...

By Matthew Gardiner Generally speaking, in the world silos relate to things that are beneficial, such as silos for grain or corn. In the world of IT security, however, silos are very bad. In many forensic investigations, application silos turn up as a key culprit that enabled data leakage of one so ...

By Pamela Fusco Cloud computing remains as much a mystery to some as it is a part of others’ daily lexicon. I spend a lot of time working with people who have connections to various offices of the US government and I find that regardless of the topic, or the background of the person I’m ...

This piece in InfoSecurity reminded me of a recent webinar I did with Jake Kouns of the Open Security Foundation.  (An archive of which is available if you are interested.) Insider Threat is such an emotive term. It's hard not to imagine suspicious Milton-esque characters lurkin ...