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For his article in eCommerce Times this month, Ed takes on the topic of Cloud Security:
Perhaps your company is among the many organizations that either has or will soon attempt a migration to some kind of cloud-based technology infrastructure. While this can mean a lot of work for an IT team, but it can also be an opportunity to reassess and reconfigure critical security controls, giving you a chance to address longstanding shortcomings.
Skills develop with practice and repetition. It’s true of anything, from playing the piano to driving a car. In any endeavor, the way to get better is to practice. Attempt the activity again and again,… Continue reading: Cloud Security: The Journey Is the Reward
Julie Knudsen has an article on security developments that focuses on internal threats, compliance, end-to-end encryption, and the ubiquitous cloud in the December 17th issue of Processor magazine.
Recognizing the risks posed by employees is sometimes difficult. As [Diana] Kelley puts it, “There’s a psychological barrier that many of us have that says, ‘You’re my employee and I trust you.’ And we really do unfortunately need to get over that. It is the insider that actually has the better access.”
I did the interview a few weeks ago – but the recent WikiLeaks incident is a good  recent reminder of the kind of havoc that a trusted insider can… Continue reading: The Latest Security Developments – Processor Magazine
 I came across an article this morning over on Network World called “Cloud computing security skeptics abound.” It’s written by Ellen Messmer, so that alone would ordinarily make it worth the read. But in this case, the content is particularly astute – even going above Ellen’s already stratospheric standards for security industry coverage (did you see what I did there? That’s cloud pun #1).
Anyway, she puts some boundaries around the somewhat nebulous (#2… I’ll stop now before you get irritated…) reasons that practitioners ordinarily give for failing to adopt cloud technologies; citing an executive at a large FI, she recounts:
“I don’t feel I have good control of… Continue reading: Cloud (in)Security: What kind of cloud is it?
I spent a good part of the last hour following links to stories about security and privacy lapses in Google Docs. I started out with a TechCrunch article detailing additional security loopholes that a security expert had recently uncovered including:
- Embedded images in protected documents that never go away and that get saved to an open server
- The new diagram feature of Google Docs saves all previous versions of the diagram and makes them available to anyone who can read the doc, even if you’ve set the diagram to view only mode
- Sometimes users still can access documents after their permissions have been revoked
These are pretty serious issues for customers who use Google Docs in a true collaborative… Continue reading: The Fog of Cloud Computing
from an upcoming article series by Char Sample,
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