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Christine Drake in
Cloud, Cloud-based Security, SaaS, Security, Smart Protection Network, Threats
Jan 19th, 2012 |
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When people talk about cloud security it can mean either 1) security for the cloud—security that protects your cloud initiatives, like protection for virtual machines or data stored in the cloud; or 2) security from the cloud such as Security as a Service that uses the cloud to deliver some aspect of protection, like hosted email or web security. Here, I’d like to focus on security from the cloud that’s delivered in a hybrid model—a cloud-client architecture.
Using the cloud for security can deliver faster threat protection and better security. Traditional security has relied on signature...
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Christine Drake in
Cloud, Cloud-based Security, Consumerization of IT, Secure Data Centers, Securing the Cloud, Security, Smart Protection Network, Threats, Threats from the Cloud, VMware
Oct 7th, 2011 |
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Traditionally businesses have focused their IT security on perimeter defense—blocking threats before they enter the network. This protection is still important. But with today’s cloud computing, mobile devices, and advanced persistent threats (APTs), businesses need security that protects their data wherever it travels and in whatever type of device it resides, requiring new data-centric security.
Earlier this week, Trend Micro held its annual insight event for the analyst community and announced our new vision on data-centric security (see video clips of the event here and here). Back...
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Dave Asprey in
Cloud, Cloud-based Security, Securing the Cloud, Security
Jul 28th, 2011 |
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The application-layer DDoS threat actually amplifies the risk to data center operators. That’s because IPS devices and firewalls become more vulnerable to the increased state demands of this emerging attack vector – making the devices themselves more susceptible to the attacks. Moreover, there is a distinct gap in the ability of existing edge-based solutions to leverage the cloud’s growing DDoS mitigation capacity, the service provider’s DDoS infrastructure or the dedicated DDoS mitigation capacity deployed upstream of the victim’s infrastructure.
Current solutions do not take advantage...
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Patrick Wheeler in
Cloud, Cloud-based Security, Consumerization of IT, hybrid-cloud, Privacy, Compliance and Identity, private cloud, public cloud, SaaS, Securing the Cloud, Security, Threats, Virtualization
Jun 20th, 2011 |
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For all its hype iCloud does not represent a fundamentally new problem. Employees are already bringing personal devices to work and wanting to use them in their jobs, and these unmanaged devices are mixing personal and corporate data on a system that is outside the control of the security and IT teams. There are already many apps and cloud-based services for sharing data between users and between devices (such as Dropbox), and these services are giving security pros fits. What is new is that iCloud will make these things happen automatically, and potentially without the intent or even awareness...
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Dave Asprey in
Cloud, Cloud-based Security, Cyber crime, Deep Security, hybrid-cloud, IaaS, Malware, Privacy, Compliance and Identity, private cloud, public cloud, Secure Data Centers, Securing the Cloud, Security, Smart Protection Network, Threats from the Cloud, Virtualization
Jun 5th, 2011 |
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For the last few months, we’ve been conducting a cloud, virtualization, and VDI security survey of 1200 IT professionals from larger companies in 6 countries around the world. Not only did I get to help shape the questions on the survey, I’ve also been on the team interpreting the results.
We’ve learned more than a few things we actually were not expecting to learn. Here is a collection of the most interesting top findings about the state of cloud and virtualization security. I’ll be blogging about some of them in more detail over the next few weeks, but in the meantime, here is the big...
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Dave Asprey in
Cloud, Cloud-based Security, Cyber crime, DataCenter, Deep Security, hybrid-cloud, IaaS, private cloud, public cloud, SaaS, Secure Data Centers, Securing the Cloud, Security, Smart Protection Network, Threats from the Cloud
Jun 2nd, 2011 |
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This is pretty cool. I gave a talk last week at the Glue Conference in Denver about how ambient clouds ( http://cloudsecurity.trendmicro.com/good-clouds-evil-clouds-why-microsoft-has… )work and even used Skype as an example of a massive-scale ambient cloud.
This case raises some very important new questions around ambient clouds. For instance, if you create an ambient cloud, one that you control using your own protocol, but where you have no control over when an endpoint may join it, what are the legal implications if someone else uses your protocol?
In an open source world, slapping a lawsuit...
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Rik Ferguson in
Cloud, Cloud-based Security, Cyber crime, Malware, Securing the Cloud, Security, Smart Protection Network, Threats, Threats from the Cloud
May 31st, 2011 |
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With the launch announcements of various Google Chrome netbooks, the focus of the press and security companies alike is beginning to take a closer look at the security promises made and also at some of the more ’media friendly‘ statements such as, “…users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates”.
Let’s have a look at some of the security features of Chrome OS:
1 – Get out of my playpen. Each process runs in its own sandbox. Effectively this means that if an application is malicious or compromised, it is unable to interact with or otherwise affect...
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Dave Asprey in
Citrix, Cloud, Cloud-based Security, cloudbursting, Deep Security, hybrid-cloud, IaaS, PaaS, private cloud, public cloud, SaaS, Securing the Cloud, Security, Smart Protection Network, Virtualization, VMware
May 25th, 2011 |
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Today at Synergy, Citrix announced “Project Olympus,” effectively making open source clouds a more viable option for enterprises. In the past, it was cloud providers like Rackspace who tended to focus on open source cloud infrastructure, while enterprises tended to make more conservative choices where support contracts were available.
The new support from Citrix, along with about 60 other supporting commercial hardware and software vendors, should go a long way towards helping enterprises see OpenStack as an enterprise-grade choice of cloud infrastructure. Enterprises can now get a Citrix-certified...
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Greg Boyle in
Cloud, Cloud-based Security, Cyber crime, Malware, public cloud, SaaS, Securing the Cloud, Security, Threats, Virtualization
May 23rd, 2011 |
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I recently had an interesting chat with the operator of our snack vending machine while making a coffee in the kitchen. She was restocking our machine and had her iPad sitting on the table. In their 2 person company they now have 2 iPads and a PC. They do their inventory control and tracking while onsite at customer premises via the iPad. Then they sync it with their PC and, using an online storage solution they transfer it to the cloud; this then syncs with their online accounting package. Her reason was very, very simple: she wants to reduce the amount of time they spend on bookkeeping and back-office...
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Bharath Chandrasekhar in
Cloud, Cloud-based Security, DataCenter, private cloud, public cloud, Secure Data Centers, Securing the Cloud, Security
May 11th, 2011 |
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How difficult is it to run a public cloud service?
As all of us know, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced an outage on 21-Apr-2011 and that lasted for almost 4 days. Quite a lot of companies were affected and you can find the list here. The Internet was flooded with articles speculating what went wrong, whether cloud computing is viable in the long run, how Amazon services did not function as advertised, how the applications should be built, etc. While most offered their opinion in broad strokes such as “use multiple regions/clouds”, “use built-in redundancy”, “don’t use public clouds”,...
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