Blog Posts Tagged with "Cloud Computing"
Cloud Security Alert – Log Files Are Not the Answer
April 18, 2018 Added by:Lora O'Haver
Once production applications and workloads have been moved to the cloud, re-evaluating the company’s security posture and adjusting the processes used to secure data and applications from cyberattacks are critical next steps.
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Enterprise Resilience - Healthcare edition (Part 2: Risk Classification)
January 31, 2013 Added by:Rafal Los
Before you tell me that risk classifications are important, water is wet, the sun is hot and ice is cold, I'd like to remind you how many enterprises still do it poorly. I almost wish it was a simple as data telling you it's critical or not, but let's face it the game is very rarely that simple...
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These Cloud and Big Data Things are REALLY Cool
January 29, 2013 Added by:Fergal Glynn
Technology, if used correctly and done in a collaborative manner can be incredibly powerful. It can help answer questions that otherwise would go unanswered. It has helped solve medical issues, predict an election with a high degree of accuracy, and enabled developers worldwide to identify software flaws...
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Cloud App Integration: Incredibly Important, But Also Problematic
January 22, 2013 Added by:Ben Kepes
As we move into the cloud-dominated world, the issue of integration is more prominent as enterprises realize how many different systems are being used throughout their organizations. While one of the best things about cloud is the democratization of technology, this is also one of the most problematic areas...
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Actual Cloud – The One To Chose
January 07, 2013 Added by:Ben Kepes
I’ve been a part of, or at least a witness to, a huge number of battles about what constitutes the “real cloud.” These battles seem to generally be fought on a Sunday afternoon U.S. time – that kind of suits me fine because it means the Monday mornings in my time zone have enough entertainment value to get me up and going.
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On Cloud Adoption
January 02, 2013 Added by:Ben Kepes
One of my regular themes when talking about the cloud are the barriers to adoption or, to put it more coarsely, how we can remove the friction and allow more organizations to enjoy the benefits that the cloud can bring. It’s an area that a number of my colleagues talk about also – we pundits have the advantage of time to explore and enjoy the benefits that cloud brings, but we remain aware of ...
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Executive Viewpoint 2013: Avecto
December 29, 2012 Added by:Paul Kenyon
With technology now available that allows even a true administrator to log in with standard user rights and do their role without ever needing a privilege account, we will start to see more and more organizations adopt a least privilege approach to computing...
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If IaaS is Going to be Heterogeneous, PaaS Will be Even More So
December 13, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
It’s something I’m actually quite passionate about – not using management tools that force business units to adopt a particular solution that may or may not really meet their needs. It makes no sense and actually hampers the ability for cloud to deliver the benefits it promises...
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CloudBeat 2012 - "Whose job is cloud security?"
December 11, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
People are still stuck on authentication, mainly passwords. We as an industry or customer base haven't been very good at figuring out how to manage identities, without sticking our customers with a million different sites which don't share common identities...
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Is PaaS the optimal cloud service model option for security? (Part 1 of 2)
December 06, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
It would seem that in the IaaS cloud service delivery model unless you know what you're getting into it may be quite tough to deploy a solid, risk-averse cloud-based application. Now, PaaS is different than the other two in that it is a compromise between extensibility and built-in security features...
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On Terms of Service, and a Global Code
November 25, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
TOS;DR aims to help with what is possibly the biggest lie on the internet, that which users make when they click that they have read, understood and accepted the terms of service of their provider. The fact is that no one reads them but rather vaguely hopes for the best...
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The Amazon Cloud And PCI Compliance
November 07, 2012 Added by:PCI Guru
The first part of the mythology revolves around what PCI compliant services Amazon Web Services (AWS) is actually providing. According to AWS’s Attestation Of Compliance, AWS is a Hosting Provider for Web and Hardware. The AOC calls out that the following services have been assessed PCI compliant...
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CloudSigma and the Perils of Choice
November 06, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
As we move to broader scale cloud adoption, one would be excused for assuming that we’d reached a point where the definition of what constitutes IaaS is set in stone – true different vendors package up their virtual servers with different specs, but IaaS is, to a greater or lesser extent, a fixed concept...
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Cloud Confusion is Considerable
October 28, 2012 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
If you are the CIO of your organization and you spent the last decade locking down your data center hardware, patching your OSs, developing a disaster recovery plan, and securing your applications are you really in a rush to move the operation and applications to the cloud?
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Accessibility and the Untold Issue Around Cloud Computing
September 26, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
The decision was made during the consultation process that universal design and accessibility issues should be outside the scope of the document. That was a necessary decision as the drive was to come up with a readily consumable document that vendors could easily comply with...
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Microsoft Forcing Users to Use Less Secure Passwords
September 18, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
Looks like Windows 8 is capped at a 16 character limit for compatibility with existing Microsoft Accounts. With the decrease of the character set, by limiting special characters for compatibility with Microsoft’s other services, the passwords are less secure than before...
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