"More and more of our citizens rely on digital services as part of their daily lives, so we needed to make sure they were always available,” says technology architect technology James Rowe
Understanding the relative maturity and effectiveness of new cloud security technologies and services will help security professionals reorient their role toward business enablement, reports Jay Heiser of Gartner.
The VP Asia Pacific and Japan for the security services provider talks about life on the road, work ethics and spotting great talent.
Some are freaking out over Windows 10 privacy settings but Microsoft is not "Big Brother" and the features and services that make Windows 10 great require some tradeoffs of privacy for functionality.
Only 8 percent of companies know the scope of shadow IT at their organizations, according to a new survey by the Cloud Security Alliance.
For startups, user growth, product growth, virality, marketing usually goes on the top of their priority list. As part of product planning cycles, embedding information security into their product/service is the last concern for most startups.
The Amazon AWS cloud service is fine for enterprise workloads and applying security controls such as encryption and firewalls is possible, though more security vendors need to step up to support Amazon's EC2 service, according to the Gartner analysis presented today.
The demise of Code Spaces, a code-hosting service that had its customer data deleted by extortionists, is an example of the dire consequences from inadequate cloud security.
A study released this week shows that 73 per cent of IT executives believe cloud providers are hiding performance problems.
Security concerns should not deter enterprises from using public cloud technologies when it makes business sense.
Cloud era brings government IT new challenge of keeping data secure while broadening user access. This will require federal CIOs to take a more granular approach to access and encryption.
Revelations that the United States government is monitoring Internet data from tech giants such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft should make your company reconsider where and how it stores data--all while realising that, at the end of the day, surveillance practices (usually) stay a secret for a reason.
In testing cloud computing services and observing the growth of cloud activities, we've noticed that there are distinct phases that organizations go through in adopting cloud.
Being flexible and looking at a variety of options is important for CIOs looking to move their data to the cloud.
There's a tremendous buzz today about cloud computing, but before outsourcing your critical business systems to the cloud let's review some security concerns.