According the FDIC website: The FDIC was created in 1933 in response to the thousands of bank failures that occurred in the 1920s and early 1930s. Just imagine. You give your money to the bank for safe keeping and before … Continue reading
Your Government is Watching You!
May 16th, 2013In a recent Computerworld article there are some scary statistics gleaned from Google and Microsoft about the number of times that both organizations have been approached by the government asking for access to specific customer’s data. For Google there were … Continue reading
Homomorphic Encryption: Promising Myth or Practical Reality
May 8th, 2013In a recent article, IBM claims to have taken a big new step in cryptography: practical homomorphic encryption. In most encryption systems, data is converted from cipher-text to clear-text (decrypted) before applications can operate on the data. With homomorphic encryption, … Continue reading
So You Want to Encrypt Your VMs?
April 29th, 2013We’ve been noticing a significant increase in the number of people finding our site by searching for ‘VM encryption’. It’s an interesting shift, as previously the terms were much more broad, like ‘cloud security’ or ‘secure IaaS’. It seems that … Continue reading
Microsoft Azure Adoption Blocked by Security
April 18th, 2013In a recent article titled “Top 10 Lesser-Known Facts About Windows Azure Security” on the website http://www.lifehacker.com.au, Angus Kidman writes about the some of the security concerns around Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform and what Microsoft have done to address them. … Continue reading
The Value to CSPs of Incorporating Data Security
April 12th, 2013If you are a cloud service provider, you are a guardian of your customers’ applications and data. Traditionally, that has meant ensuring high availability, and supporting disaster recovery scenarios. However, thieves are getting smarter and regulations are getting more stringent. … Continue reading
More Use Cases for VM Encryption
April 11th, 2013Server virtualization has opened up a new world to many organizations. Because of virtualization, private datacenters – as well as the public cloud – are becoming more resilient, scalable and cost effective. But there are numerous other uses for virtual … Continue reading
Can You Build Secure Multi-tenancy in the Public Cloud?
March 29th, 2013David Linthicum recently wrote an insightful article listing ‘5 cloud risks you have to stop ignoring’. Front and center was the issue of shared access, also called multi-tenancy. Definition of Multi-tenancy Multi-tenancy means different things to different people. When operating … Continue reading
Secure VM Backups: What is Different, and Why You Should Care?
March 22nd, 2013There are many ways to back up data. Some of the traditional methods include: At the application layer (for example, database backup) Within the operating system (filesystem or volume manager) Within the storage fabric (volume snapshots) And technology continues to … Continue reading
CSOs: Are You an Ostrich or a Bullfighter When it Comes to Cloud Security?
March 20th, 2013We have been doing a ton of research about enterprise cloud adoption and security, and what we’ve learned is pretty interesting. As you would expect, CISO’s opinions about cloud strategy are as varied as the companies they represent. While all … Continue reading
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