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What Are the True Dangers of the Cloud?

Posted by Christine Drake in Cloud, Cyber crime, DataCenter, hybrid-cloud, IaaS, PaaS, private cloud, public cloud, SaaS, Secure Data Centers, Securing the Cloud, Security, Threats, Threats from the Cloud, Virtualization Sep 8th, 2011 | 7 Comments
We often hear that security and privacy concerns are the main inhibitors to cloud adoption.  But what are the true threats?  Is the cloud really more dangerous than your on-site data center?  I would say that virtualization and cloud computing aren’t inherently more dangerous, but they have unique infrastructure that must be addressed when creating a security foundation.  There are similar attacks across physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures—data-stealing malware, web threats, spam, phishing, bots, etc. So many companies are tempted to deploy their security for dedicated physical... read more

Matching Security to Your Cloud

Posted by Christine Drake in Cloud, IaaS, private cloud, public cloud, Securing the Cloud, Security, Virtualization Aug 30th, 2011 | 7 Comments
There’s a lot of talk about cloud computing and cloud security this week as many people are attending VMworld in Las Vegas (follow Trend Micro at VMworld).  But not all types of cloud security are best suited for all types of cloud computing.  When people generically refer to “cloud computing” they usually mean the public cloud.  But what about private clouds or hybrid clouds?  The May 2011 Trend Micro cloud survey results showed that companies are adopting all three models almost equally.  Although there are certainly overlaps in security best practices across these models, there are... read more