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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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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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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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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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Greg Boyle in
Cloud, Cloud-based Security, DataCenter, hybrid-cloud, IaaS, PaaS, Privacy, Compliance and Identity, private cloud, public cloud, SaaS, Secure Data Centers, Securing the Cloud, Security, Smart Protection Network, Threats, Threats from the Cloud, Virtualization
Apr 20th, 2011 |
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The Small Business Journey to the Cloud is Actually a Round Trip
By Greg Boyle, Trend Micro Global Product Marketing Manager
Many small businesses are still uncertain about cloud computing. They wonder if it can help with their profitability without being extremely risky. Let’s start by defining cloud computing in small business terms. There are two commonly agreed upon types of cloud computing: 1) software-as-a-service and 2) infrastructure-as-a-service.
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is cloud computing where the software you would normally install on your computers in the office is instead...
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Jon Oliver in
Cloud, Cloud-based Security, Cyber crime, Malware, Securing the Cloud, Security, Smart Protection Network, Threats, Threats from the Cloud
Jan 17th, 2011 |
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Today’s threat landscape has required security vendors to change their approach to protecting customer data. TrendLabs℠, Trend Micro’s threat research arm, states there are now 3.5 new threats released every second by cybercriminals. Traditional approaches to security just cannot keep up with this. Those traditional processes looked like this:
Customers would submit a suspicious file to their security vendor for analysis
The security vendor would analyze and confirm it as malicious
A signature would be created to identify that file as suspicious
The signature file would be published...
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Ron Clarkson in
Cloud, Cloud-based Security, Cyber crime, Malware, SaaS, Securing the Cloud, Security, Smart Protection Network, Threats, Threats from the Cloud
Jan 7th, 2011 |
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Not too long ago, a friend of mine switched from iPhone to Android and he was quite loud about it on his Facebook wall, exclaiming that it was nice to have a phone that let you “make your own decisions.” This is a pretty common theme that I hear again and again from newly converted Android devotees and I think it’s pretty cool because let’s face it, our phones are an extension of our personalities. Whether it’s the ability to use removable storage or the ability to install any app you want, Android certainly offers the most freedom of any of the popular smartphones...
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Aaron Lewis in
Cloud-based Security, Secure Data Centers, Securing the Cloud, Threats from the Cloud
Sep 15th, 2010 |
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Adobe has issued a security advisory APSA 10-03 describing a new critical vulnerability in its products. This time, the primary target is Flash Player with multiple platforms—Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, and Android—all affected and is currently being exploited in the wild. Current versions of Acrobat and Reader—the target of last week’s vulnerability—are also affected by the said exploit although Adobe states that in-the-wild attacks against these have not yet been seen.
Trend Micro detects malicious ShockWave Flash (.SWF) files exploiting this vulnerability as TROJ_SWIF.HEL. This functions...
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Justin Foster in
Secure Data Centers, Securing the Cloud
Mar 25th, 2010 |
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Cloud computing and mobile devices have revolutionized our personal and professional lives. These innovations have unlocked a new age of elasticity and mobility. Along with this digital revolution, an unexpected transformation is taking place at the heart of server workloads and mobile devices.
We are witnessing the decline of the general purpose operating system.
The once static datacenter has transformed into a highly agile virtual datacenter, and is once again transforming thanks to cloud computing. First generation migrations to cloud, using IaaS, are facing tough competition from PaaS frameworks...
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