Posts Tagged ‘ Cloud Security ’

News: Sky High Networks provides Cloud Service Security Ratings

February 28, 2013
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CloudComputing

There has been a dearth of intelligence reporting on cloud services and up until now we had to rely upon the Verizon Breach Report, Alert Logic's State of the Cloud report, the Enisa and other reports, but even so there was nothing specifically about a given cloud service outside the lightly used Cloud Security Alliances…

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Threats and Risks in the Cloud

November 29, 2012
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CloudComputing

There are threats to the cloud and there are risks within the cloud. A recent article from Tech Target Search Security blog spurred several thoughts. The main claim here is that there are not enough people who can differentiate threats and risks enough to talk to business leaders who may know very little about security,…

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Gaining Visibility into The Cloud: Migration and Security

October 18, 2012
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IaaSSec

On many a Virtualization Security Podcast I tend to mention that we need greater visibility into the cloud to judge whether Cloud Service Provider security measures are good enough. But why should we bother? I am not saying we should not be concerned about a cloud's security but that we should as tenants be concerned…

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Virtualization Field Day Delegates discuss Cloud Security and Compliance

March 14, 2012
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VirtualizationSecurity

The Virtualization Field Day delegates joined the Virtualization Security Podcast as guest panelists on 2/23 and the topic of the day was cloud security. There were questions about compliance, security of the tenant, and security of the administrators, and legal issues. There were answers from Rodney Haywood (Rodos), another Virtualization Field Day Delegate and cloud…

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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: More Secure than you Think?

January 13, 2012
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At the end of last year and the beginning of this year the Virtualization Security Podcast featured two very different guest panelists to discuss cloud security, policy, and compliance: Phil Cox, Director of Security and Compliance at RightScale, joined us for the last podcast in 2011 and the George Gerchow of VMware's Policy and Compliance…

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Security in the Cloud Era

September 21, 2011
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"The latest challenge on the security front isn't necessarily an exotic new threat vector: it's the attackers themselves. They're organized, well-resourced and patient. And there's no silver technology bullet to effectively combat them." This is a very important point, and one that I have seen at other security conferences for the last 5 years or…

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vCloud Security

March 7, 2011
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On the 2/24 Virtualization Security Podcast we were joined by Davi Ottenheimer and Michael Haines of VMware to discuss vCloud security. This is of quite a bit of interest to many people these days. As VMware adds more and more Cloud functionality, how to secure the environment is becoming more and more important. The podcast…

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Hosting.com Cloud Trends Report

February 17, 2011
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Hosting.com Cloud Trends Report

Hosting.com has done a survey of over 500 companies on their cloud and virtualization usage patterns, plans and concerns. The report concludes that in the next 12 months, there will be a fundamental and measurable shift in how companies view and utilize cloud-based solutions.

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