Life Is Too Short To Remove A USB Stick Safely
Today, Steve Jobs resigned as a CEO of Apple. I think I will remember this day and so will others. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do [...]
Seven Deadly Sins in Cloud Computing Security
A few days back the Cloud Security Alliance released their paper on the Seven Deadly Sins for Cloud Computing Security. This is a very good guide for security engineers to at least read. The more traditionally minded will ignore it, but those who are working in the cloud space, this gives us something to talk [...]
Yes it is possible to resource starve a Cloud Computer
Over the weekend, my cloud computing infrastructure survived a major hacking attack. Here is what happened and what it took to recover it. This weekend my servers out in the cloud space fended off a major hacking attack across two of the systems that I have given the public access to use them. The attack [...]
Lessons Learned from Cloud Camp Seattle 2010
Last night I got to attend cloud camp, which is an “unevent” that people can attend to meet up with people who are looking into a particular technology for business. Cloud Camp Seattle was held at the Grand Hyatt Seattle, which provided an awesome environment to discuss cloud computing with 200 of like-minded people. For [...]
Can regulators keep up with Cloud Computing?
We all know them almost by heart, PCI, SAS-70, HIPPA, SOX, and the ton of federal, state and business driven rules and regulations that companies and security engineers need to keep up with. In a rational and impassioned blog entry, Rational Survivability asks if regulators are keeping up with changes in the Cloud Computing environment. [...]
