Posts Tagged ‘ AFORE ’

Public Cloud Reality: Application Security is in your Hands

February 18, 2013
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VirtualizationSecurity

We recently moved workloads to the public cloud and the public cloud reality does not match the hype, nor does it match the application security requirements of a small or even large organization.

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Virtualizing Business Critical Applications – Integrity & Confidentiality

January 14, 2013
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VirtualizationSecurity

Recently I discussed Virtualizing Business Critical Applications and security, which includes availability, confidentiality, and integrity. However, that discussion was more about visibility into the environment for security operations. I purposely left off the discussion of gaining integrity and confidentiality of the data housed within those business critical applications.

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Defense in Depth: Storage Security in a Hybrid Cloud

July 11, 2012
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StorageNetworking

Storage Security is not only about Encryption, which is just one aspect of Storage Security requirements for the virtual and cloud environments. It is also about increasing defense in depth and knowledge of what is touching your storage environment. As well as providing security around those touch points and to a great extent auditing and…

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Virtualization Security is NOT Cloud Security!

January 31, 2012
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I and others look at Virtualization Security constructs with an eye towards Cloud Security, but they are not necessarily the same. Granted for some clouds, virtualization security can lead to cloud security but this really depends on how the cloud's architecture. Even so, what we know from Virtualization Security WILL apply to Cloud Security and…

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Cloud Security: Is it all Jurisdictional and Audit Issues?

January 24, 2012
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When you read many blogs and articles on cloud security, writers such as myself often mention jurisdictional issues as a big problem. Nor is the ability to Audit clouds the only problem. Yet both of these are huge issues for clouds today, but fundamentally, is the cloud flawed from a security point of view or…

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Cloud and Virtualization Security Resolutions for 2012

December 28, 2011
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Christmas is over and New Years is on its way. A time to make resolutions and see the year complete. A time to review what is old and plan for the future. This is a perfect time to review your defense in depth and look to see if there are security additions needed in 2012.…

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Virtualization Security Announcements: Architecture Concerns

October 20, 2011
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There have been a large number of Announcements that have been made for VMworld Copenhagen with respect to virtualization and cloud security. This shows quite an interesting growth in the market, and that even 1 month apart there is still more to be announced within the virtual and cloud security spaces. There are three very…

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Link your Clouds using AFORE Cloudlink

October 3, 2011
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Link your Clouds using AFORE Cloudlink

AFORE Solutions has created AFORE Cloudlink, which won the Best of VMworld for Security at VMworld 2011 in the United States. Yet, many people were scratching their head saying, who are AFORE and why did they win. AFORE moved from a physical appliance to a virtual appliance about 3 years ago providing a way to…

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