Infosecurity Europe: should cloud providers be responsible for security? Part 2 April 2011 | Redaction | Leave a comment How the shift to cloud-based services will force us to rethink, and change some well-established approaches to security was discussed at a panel session organised for Infosecurity Europe by the Cloud Security Alliance. Rik Ferguson of Trend Micro set things … Continue reading → Tweet
Infosecurity Europe: should cloud providers be responsible for security? April 2011 | Redaction | Leave a comment The security challenges facing cloud-based services prompted a lively discussion at Infosecurity Europe, ranging over issues such as what is distinctive about cloud-based services, what the genuine security concerns are, and how they should best be tackled. “If you talk … Continue reading → Tweet
No business IT assets by 2012? January 2010 | Redaction | Leave a comment By 2012, 20 per cent of businesses will own no IT assets, according to new research. A variety of factors, such as virtualisation, cloud-enabled services, and employees running personal desktops and notebook systems are driving this trend claims Gartner. The … Continue reading → Tweet
IT budgets expected to rise in 2010, claims survey December 2009 | Redaction | Leave a comment Enterprises are planning to increase IT budgets in order to benefit from technology-driven efficiencies, according to a new survey. The most popular new technologies to invest in are set to be virtualisation, e-business systems and service-oriented architecture, claimed the research. … Continue reading → Tweet
New PCI DSS standard to cover cloud November 2009 | Redaction | Leave a comment The next iteration of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) will cover *virtualisation *security and cloud architectures in particular, it has been confirmed.Bob Russo, the General Manager of the PCI Council, said: “We’ve had a lot of … Continue reading → Tweet
Cloud Security Focus: Business, Security and Compliance Risks and Links April 2009 | Redaction | Leave a comment Is Cloud Computing just another distraction from the recession or are there really any tangible benefits.Proponents will point to savings from less assets to manage (servers, switches, cables etc) and potentially stronger dedicated security from the Cloud provider. Certainly it … Continue reading → Tweet
Cloud Security Focus: Virtualisation April 2009 | Redaction | Leave a comment Virtualisation technology is one of the cornerstones of Cloud Computing. However the virtualisation within Cloud Computing brings a number of extra security implications beyond that of virtualisation within normal organisations. Back in the early days of virtualisation technology many felt … Continue reading → Tweet
Cloud Security Focus: Patch Management April 2009 | Redaction | Comments (3) Virtualisation technology is one of the cornerstones of Cloud Computing. However virtualisation within Cloud Computing brings a number of extra security implications beyond that of virtualisation within normal organisations. In this article, we look at the issue of Patch Management … Continue reading → Tweet
Stop the Hype – Where Cloud Computing is Viable… (Part 1) April 2009 | Redaction | Leave a comment There are just too many security and compliance risks associated with Cloud Computing today. In this article we examine where Cloud Computing can be part of the overall business strategy and where due to security and compliance issues, outsourcing to … Continue reading → Tweet
