Items Tagged with "Managed Services"
How the Cloud Disrupted the Corporate Ecosystem
August 29, 2012 Added by:Barrie Hadfield
As the cloud wields increasing influence on corporate environments, the traditional ecosystem becomes more antiquated. There’s some paradox in how the cloud is enabling productivity and collaboration while simultaneously eroding security protocols designed to protect intellectual property and corporate assets...
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Mobile Infrastructure: The Elephant in the Data Center
August 25, 2012 Added by:Tripwire Inc
One area that seems to be ignored is the infrastructure that supports increasingly cloud dependent mobile devices, possibly due to many not seeing server exploits and defenses as anything new. However, as the popularity of mobile devices push services such as the iCloud, exposure increases exponentially...
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The Unforeseen Risks of the Cloud
August 21, 2012 Added by:Barrie Hadfield
Consumer-based cloud platforms focus exclusively on usability and do little, if anything, to prevent the improper distribution of sensitive files and information across the firewall. the opportunity for corporate documents to fall into the wrong hands has become essentially limitless...
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The Cloud: It’s About Flexibility
August 21, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
As far as I’m concerned, the future will see a gradual shift from on-premise, to private cloud, to public cloud – that’s a factor of economics and scale. But the bottom line is that cloud isn’t about meeting a series of technical check boxes; it’s about meeting the needs of the business...
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The Future Ain’t Homogenized: Please Stop the FUD Vendors
August 15, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
At the end of the day, if is slightly cheaper to own your hardware than to rent, the fact is that if in doing so you have to spend time focusing on technology instead of focusing on your core business, then that savings pales into insignificance when compared to the real value that pure focus can bring...
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The Weakest Link in the Security Chain: Is it in Your Controls?
August 11, 2012 Added by:Tripwire Inc
Rather than brute-forcing the account, the hackers gained access by doing some creative social engineering by contacting Apple customer support. The problem is that we often turn over our data to 3rd-party providers without understanding what protocols they have in place to keep our data safe...
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Dropbox Security Issues: IT Has Only Itself to Blame
August 06, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
For Dropbox to admit that they were investigating the issue internally is a tacit admission that it is an internal issue rather than anything external. Yes Dropbox has issues, and yes those issues would appear to be indicative of something broader – but that doesn’t call into question the entire concept of cloud...
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Technical Considerations when Moving to the Cloud
July 29, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
When faced by sometimes rabidly optimistic vendors that suggest putting everything into the cloud, right away, organizations are naturally a little confused when it comes to deciding what applications to move and how to develop an incremental migration strategy...
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GSA Seeks Cloud Brokerage Information
July 28, 2012 Added by:Kevin L. Jackson
The objective of this RFI is to learn more about how government can further leverage the key characteristics and advantages of cloud computing to save money and increase IT efficiencies. CSB's are one concept that GSA is exploring and this RFI contains questions specific to cloud brokerages...
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Moving To The Cloud: Internal Business Considerations
July 19, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
Corporate IT changes dramatically with a move to the cloud – no longer do people need to spend time racking and stacking servers, patching software and other low level tasks – in the long run organizations will not have email server administrators, desktop software support personnel or systems administrators...
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Security Mistakes You Will Make on Your Next Cloud Project
July 18, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
The Cloud Security Control model looks great, but it doesn’t mitigate core vulnerabilities in your software. Once you choose the right service model and vendor, put aside the security reference models and focus on hardening your application software. It’s your code that will be running in someone else's cloud...
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Ten Things I’ve Learned About Cloud Security
July 17, 2012 Added by:Bill Mathews
Cloud security is tough for a lot of reasons, not least of which is because you probably only understand the basics of what you interface with - the controls the provider allows you to see. This lack of depth of management introduces many security related challenges. Having said that, let’s explore...
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Penetration Testing the Cloud: Three Important Points
July 17, 2012 Added by:Brandon Knight
One area where companies seem to become lost is when talking about performing penetration testing services against their deployment. While there are some details to work out, fundamentally this type of assessment translates well when talking about applications and infrastructure deployed in the cloud...
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Data: The Final Frontier of the Collapsing Perimeter
July 16, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
If we as IT professionals and architects acknowledge that the perimeter is now around the data, what solutions do we have for protecting it? How can we protect data which is mobile, usable, and in a constant state of danger? The answer seems to be some form of protection that involves our old friend, encryption...
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The Patchwork Cloud: Breaking Laws You Didn't Know Applied
July 11, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
The challenges of dealing with a completely connected, ubiquitously computable world are that data can be moved, stored, and used anywhere and that the infrastructure that moves that data around is less and less under your control. That's an interesting thing for information security professionals...
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Cloud Surveys and Extrapolating Out to Disruption
July 11, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
NBVP had around 40 industry collaborators survey close to 800 respondents to ascertain their key issues impacting cloud computing. Security remains the primary inhibitor to adoption with 55% of respondents identifying it as a concern, followed by regulatory compliance at 38% and vendor lock-in at 32%...